solarmode.ie · prepared for Solar Mode only

One ranking brings in all 22 of your monthly Google visits

This review is about what your website brings in, and what stops it. We went through the site, your search rankings and your reviews. The main findings: every visitor Google sends you comes from a single ranking for "solar panels waterford". Your 8 EV charger and grant searches, worth more search volume combined, sit on page five and lower. Your 4.9 rating from 12 reviews appears nowhere on the site. There are smaller things too. The site's own secure address doesn't work without "www" in front of it, and the copyright in the footer still says 2025. It's all detailed below, with what to do about each one.

"Solar panels waterford"
22nd
Your one ranking that brings in strangers.
Share of visits from that ranking
100%
All 22 monthly visits, from one search.
Reviews shown on the site
0
You have 12 at 4.9 stars. Never shown.
EV/grant searches ranking
0 of 8
All on page five or lower.
01 The rankings

One page is doing all the work, and everything else sits unseen

Google matches each search to a page. Your homepage ranks 22nd for "solar panels waterford", and that single ranking accounts for every one of your site's 22 monthly visits. Your other page, the EV charging and grants guide, targets 8 real searches and doesn't rank inside the top 40 for any of them.

What people GooglePeople / monthYour situation
solar panels waterford17022nd. Your only ranking with any traffic.22nd
ev charger grant39048th, from the grants guide.48th
car charger grant ireland39062nd, same page.62nd
electric car grant ireland39071st, same page.71st
ev grant ireland32063rd, same page.63rd
electric car grant32070th, same page.70th

Those 8 EV and grant searches add up to more monthly volume than your one working ranking, and every one of them sits on the same page, none inside the top 40. A search rated this easy to win, on a page that already exists, is usually the fastest ranking gain available on a site.

Bottom line: Everything you rank for today comes from one page. The page built for your second-biggest opportunity doesn't rank at all yet.
02 The specifics

Five things holding the site back

The first two are technical faults, confirmed directly against the live site. The rest are what stops a visitor from becoming an enquiry once they do arrive.

Broken
Your secure address doesn't work without "www"
Typing solarmode.ie into a browser over a secure connection fails, because the site's security certificate only covers www.solarmode.ie. Anyone who types your domain the plain way, off a van, a card, or memory, gets a security warning instead of your site.
Dated
The footer copyright still says 2025
A small thing on its own, but it's the kind of detail a visitor half-notices and reads as "this site hasn't been touched in a while."
Hidden
Your 4.9 rating from 12 reviews is nowhere on the site
Not in your Google listing, not on the homepage, not on any of the 13 pages. A homeowner deciding who to let onto their roof gets no proof anyone already trusts you.
Weak
The site never mentions Cork, Kilkenny or Tipperary
You serve all three counties alongside Waterford. None of them appear anywhere on the site. Someone searching from any of those counties has no way to know you'd take the job.
Weak
Google scores the mobile site 46 out of 100 for speed
The main content takes around 13 seconds to appear on a phone, well past Google's own 2.5 second bar, and the page visibly shifts as it loads. The photography is also stock imagery rather than your own finished installations.
Worth noticing

The small items on this list are edits: fixing the certificate, updating the copyright, adding a review line. The rest, new county coverage, real photography, a faster build, are closer to a rebuild. At that point it's worth pricing both options: patch the current site, or build once around everything it's missing.

Bottom line: The technical faults are quick fixes. The trust and speed gaps are the real work.
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 Mode comes up on Google today, next to what it should say. The current version doesn't say where you are beyond the name, or show your review record.
What Google shows now
https://www.solarmode.ie
SolarMode - PV Panels & EV Charging
SolarMode, based in Dungarvan Co. Waterford, are experts in Solar PV and renewable energy installations for homes and businesses. EV Charging, Heat Pumps. SEAI home energy grants available.
What it should show
https://www.solarmode.ie
Solar Panel & EV Charger Installers Waterford | Solar Mode
Solar PV, EV charging and heat pumps for homes and businesses across Waterford, Cork, Kilkenny and Tipperary. 4.9 stars from 12 Google reviews.
Fix 2 · Finish the ranking you already started
Your grants page already targets these 8 searches. It just isn't strong enough yet to rank for any of them. Expanding it is the fastest win available on the site.
/ev-charging-grants carries 8 real searches worth 2,300 a month combined, none ranking inside the top 40. Add clearer answers on grant amounts, eligibility and how you handle the paperwork, then split the EV-charger content from the solar-grant content into pages of their own.
Fix 3 · The remaining quick fixes
Smaller, but each one is a real, confirmed issue on the live site.
Fix the SSL certificate so solarmode.ie works without "www" currently fails a secure connection
Update the footer copyright from 2025 to 2026
Show "4.9 stars from 12 Google reviews" near the top of the homepage currently absent from all 13 pages
Name Cork, Kilkenny and Tipperary somewhere on the site currently 0 mentions of any of the three
04 The plan

What to do and when

Start at the top. The bottom block is the decision worth making once the quick fixes are done.

Today
about 30 minutes total
Update the footer copyright to 2026.
5 min
Add "4.9 stars from 12 Google reviews" near the top of the homepage.
15 min
Swap in the new Google listing text from Fix 1.
10 min
This week
about half a day
Fix the SSL certificate so the bare domain loads securely.
one call to your host
Add a line naming Cork, Kilkenny and Tipperary alongside Waterford.
15 min
Ask the crews for 6-8 photos of finished jobs to replace the stock images.
one text
This month
the growth work
Expand the grants page per Fix 2. 2,300 a month in EV and grant searches, none ranking yet.
1-2 days
Replace the stock photography with the crews' own finished jobs.
half day
Price both options. Patching the certificate, speed and copy issues one at a time, or building the site once around the counties and photography it's missing. The second is often less work, not more.
one call
05 What it adds up to

Run your own numbers on it

Those 8 EV and grant searches add up to

2,300 searches every month.

0 visits currently arrive from any of them.

All 22 of your site's monthly visits come from one different ranking entirely.

That's not traffic you're close to catching, it's traffic a page that already exists hasn't reached yet. You know your average job value on a solar or EV charger enquiry, and what your close rate looks like once someone actually calls. That's the sum worth running on your side.

Bottom line: One working page proves the site can rank. The page built for your next opportunity just isn't strong enough yet.
Why sooner beats later

44 referring domains already point at solarmode.ie, and Google visits the site regularly. None of that authority has reached the grants page yet. The longer it sits unranked, the longer 2,300 real monthly searches keep landing on whoever else answers them instead.

Whether you tackle this yourself or hand it to someone else
I'm happy to spend 15 minutes walking you through the report so you know which changes will actually move the needle first. 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.
Book the walkthrough
Or just reply to the message this arrived in, or call or text me on 083 059 8065.
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.