Recent content by JustinM

Very interested to see if there's any progress with this. I feel like my "People Talk About" is holding me back and I'd love to see a roadmap for changing it.

I just wanted to post a little update on this. I created a link disavow for the website that had tonnes of exact match keyword links (due to one blog comment) and sure enough my site has come back, somewhat. I'm page three for organic, and page 2 on map results. Hopefully with a little bit of...

@JoshuaMackens Honestly I don't track a tonne of keywords Joshua, but I know that I tanked for my top 3. My homepage is optimised for 'Vancouver wedding photography', and the exact match anchor text I left on one blog (which turned into a pile of sitewide links) was 'Vancouver wedding...

@wonderwoman That was an interesting read, thanks! So there are two link sources that I'm worried about. One is the electronics retailer I blog for. The dofollow links I was adding to the footer of each post were unnatural because I was adding them myself. I nollowed those a couple of weeks...

@wonderwoman Thanks for that, I'll download that doc and give it a read @Linda Thanks for taking the time Linda, I know you have a lot going on. What you're saying re. title tag and H1 makes total sense, but I guess I became somewhat change averse after I made it to page 1!

@Dave It is definitely worrying that my organic ranking has plummeted too. I was page two at one point. If I was being penalised for anchor text links (from dofollow blogs comments in my niche) would I get a message in webmaster tools?

Thanks for the input folks! @johncrenshaw You've got a good point there. When I started out my SEO journey I read that blog commenting is a way of getting easy but low value links. I'm part of a professional forum where someone came up with the idea of 'spreading comment love'; basically...

Believe me Colan, I did my utmost to incorporate a Google Map, but it just wasn't possible!

Thanks for taking the time sergiuliano! As regards the exact address, it's hidden as I had a hidden address violation a while back. I will definitely look at some of the on-page issues you've raised.

No worries Linda, take your time. Any guidance you can give me (whenever it suits) is very much appreciated.

Greetings Local Search Experts! I hope this isn't cheeky, I'm sure there are lots of people out there in need of help, but I'm kind of lost at sea here so I thought I'd reach out.... My story: At the start of 2012 I started working hard on my SEO (I have a software background so the on-page...

I requested a call from Google last week to talk about incorrect categories and while I was on the line the guy merged my business page to G+, and now I have the dashboard too. Pretty sweet. On the downside my business pretty much disappeared off the SERPs, and when you do drill down far...

I didn't get any email updates so I missed a bunch of replies on this thread! Thanks everybody for taking the time. Having read Chris' initial reply, I'm inclined to agree with his opinion that this is not a Penguin situation. I'm not worried now about adding the exact match link again. After...

I'm guessing Marie that this isn't so much the straw that broke the camel's back but the 50 kilo anvil. I've only been doing SEO seriously for about a year (and by no means in a full-time capacity), so it's conceivable that my link profile is so shallow that this one link threw the whole profile...

@Phil Not a chance! @Linda My bad, I'm not sure where I got that idea. @Phil Just to clarify, I rank in the 7-pack. I'm just a sole proprietor doing my own local SEO here, not a consultant or anything, hence my total aversion to experimenting with my link profile, educational and all as that...