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Your homepage promises a grant of up to €3,000. The grant is €1,800

This review is about what your website brings in, and what it tells the people who find it. We went through the site, your search rankings and your reviews. The main findings: the site gets about one visit a month from Google, across 26 rankings that all sit on page three or lower. The first fact the homepage offers, a grant of up to €3,000, is €1,200 above today's SEAI cap of €1,800. The footer says Copyright 2020. And your 87 Google reviews at 4.7 stars are doing no work in any of it. It's all detailed below, with what to do about each one.

Google rating
4.7
From 87 reviews. Your search listing never mentions it.
Grant figure on your homepage
€3,000
The SEAI cap today is €1,800 (seai.ie, July 2026).
Visits from Google / month
1
From 26 rankings, none higher than 27th.
Visits from people typing your name
0
Branded traffic is zero. Nobody arrives by name.
01 The rankings

26 rankings, none closer than page three

Your site ranks for 26 searches, and 17 of them point at the homepage, which is competing for national terms, county terms and quote terms all at once. The best it manages is 27th. For a business whose whole model is being found by people comparing installers, here's what the comparison searches look like today.

What homeowners GooglePeople / monthYour situation
solar panel quotes880Getting people quotes is your product. You're 70th.70th
solar panels ireland6,60035th. This one ranking is your entire Google traffic.35th
best solar panel installers ireland39027th, your closest ranking to page one.27th
solar energy companies ireland390People comparing companies. 59th.59th
solar ireland59029th.29th
solar farm590You have a farm development page. 32nd.32nd
solar calculator ireland170A natural fit for a comparison service. 76th.76th
solar panels wexford21089th. No page on the site targets any county.89th

The site has pages for homeowners, businesses, farmers, new builds and communities, so the structure for these searches half exists. Google ranks none of those pages for anything. The searches above add up to more than 9,000 a month from people your service was built for, and together they currently send you one visitor.

02 What the site tells the people who do arrive

The site's first job is to be trusted, and it works against itself

A comparison service sells one thing: confidence that its information is current and independent. Three things on the site undercut that before a visitor reaches the form.

Wrong
The grant figure is out of date by €1,200
"HOMEOWNERS AVAIL OF GRANT OF UP TO €3,000" sits in the first screen of the homepage. SEAI's solar electricity grant is capped at €1,800 today. A homeowner who checks, and grant amounts are the most checked fact in this market, finds the government contradicting your headline. For an advice service, that's the worst possible place to be wrong.
Dated
The footer says Copyright 2020
The copyright line hasn't changed in six years, and the site's images date from 2016 and 2019 uploads. Solar prices, grants and installers have all changed several times since then. A visitor deciding whether your comparisons are current gets their answer at the bottom of the page.
Hidden
The 4.7 rating is doing no work
You have 87 Google reviews at 4.7 stars, real people who used the service and recommend it. Your Google listing doesn't mention it, and the first screen of the homepage leads with the outdated grant figure instead. The strongest evidence you own that the service works is the evidence nobody is shown.
Missing
The site never says where you are
Leitrim appears nowhere on the homepage, and no page on the site is built for a county search. Your one county ranking, "solar panels wexford", sits at 89th. Local searches are the ones a site this size can realistically win first.
Worth noticing

Some of this is edits: the grant figure, the copyright year, the page titles. But the pattern underneath is a site built around 2020 and left, on page-builder tools from that era. If you're fixing the facts, retitling the pages and building county and comparison pages anyway, it's worth pricing both options: patching the current site, or building once around everything it's missing.

03 Done for you

The fixes, already written out

Each fix below is ready to hand to whoever manages the site.

Fix 1 · New text for your Google listing
This is what people see when Solar Compare comes up on Google today, next to what it should say. The current title starts with the word "Home", and the description repeats the savings claim instead of the review record.
What Google shows now
https://www.solarcompare.ie
Home - Solar Compare - Solar PV
Solar Compare is Ireland's first free Solar PV advisory and comparison service. Save up to 70% on your energy bills and let Solar Compare find a Solar PV System and installer that is right for you.
What it should show
https://www.solarcompare.ie
Compare Solar Panel Quotes Ireland | Solar Compare
Free, independent comparison of solar PV installers across Ireland. Rated 4.7 from 87 Google reviews. Tell us about your home and we find the right installer and price.
Fix 2 · Correct the numbers the site promises
These are the edits that stop the site contradicting the checkable facts. Each is a one-line change.
"grant of up to €3,000" → "grant of up to €1,800" (SEAI cap, July 2026), everywhere it appears
"Copyright 2020" → 2026, in the footer
"Home - Solar Compare - Solar PV" → the title from Fix 1
Fix 3 · The pages built for the comparison searches
Each of these gives one of the searches from the table its own page, built to answer it. Ordered by how close you already are.
/best-solar-installers-ireland/ — 390 a month, you're 27th, the closest to page one
/solar-panel-quotes/ — 880 a month, currently 70th, and it's literally the service
/solar-calculator/ — 170 a month, 76th, a calculator suits a comparison service
/solar-panels-wexford/ and county pages — 210 a month in Wexford alone, currently 89th
04 The plan

What to do and when

Start at the top. The first two blocks are edits to the current site. The bottom block is the structural work.

Today
about 25 minutes total
Change the €3,000 grant line to €1,800 everywhere it appears.
10 min
Swap in the new Google listing text from Fix 1.
10 min
Update the footer copyright year.
5 min
This week
about 2 hours
Put "Rated 4.7 from 87 Google reviews" in the first screen of the homepage, and quote three of them with first names.
45 min
Give the homeowner, business, farmer and new-build pages titles that name their search, so Google has a reason to rank them.
45 min
Reply to your most recent Google reviews.
20 min
This month
the structural work
The four pages from Fix 3. The installers guide and the quotes page first; they're the searches your business model answers.
2 days
Decide the platform question first. If you're correcting the facts, retitling every page and adding four new ones anyway, price both options: patching the current site, or building a new one around them. The second is often less work, not more.
one call
05 What it adds up to

Run your own numbers on it

Here's the sum in its plain parts. The searches in the table add up to more than 9,000 a month from people comparing installers, which is exactly who you exist for, and today they send you one visitor. On the trust side, the people who do arrive meet a grant figure the government contradicts and a footer from 2020, and never see the 87 reviews that would settle the question. Fix the facts and the people who arrive stay. Fix the pages and more people arrive. You know what a referred installation is worth to you. Run that against one visit a month and you'll see the room.

Why sooner beats later

Your keyword count fell 3.7% last month, from an already small base. And every day the €3,000 line stays up, the first checkable fact on your homepage is wrong by €1,200, for the exact audience most likely to check.

Want to walk through it? 15 minutes, on a screen share.
We'll go through this page together, show you exactly what's worth doing first, and answer whatever you want to ask. Bring whoever manages your website if you like, and if you want, we'll put the first fixes live while we're on. You keep everything in this report either way.
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Dylan Fahy, All Day Solar Agency. I design websites and handle SEO for solar installers across Ireland. Everything above comes from your live site, your public reviews and search data from July 2026.