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I hope I have this in the right place. I apologize if this has been covered before. I feel tons of respect for the knowledge being shared here.
The big question: Why are my local SERPs stuck and not regaining their rankings?
Here is the G+ listing:
https://plus.google.com/112513526305661424217/about
Relevant Facts (as far as I can tell):
1) My photography studio was ranked three or higher consistently on the blended results and local SERPS for about two or three years leading up to May. Had excellent citations, a good volume of reviews and fairly close to the city centroid.
2) I relocated the business in May to a much better location for less rent that just so happened to be closer to the city centroid. I wasn't keen on doing this for the risk of this kind of thing happening to valuable SERPS but I decided the long-term benefits were worth it.
3) I worked through all of the headaches and confusion of closing Google Places pages, Google Plus business, lost reviews, sunk rankings.
4) The Google + page for the old location is still indexed and visible despite my telling G it has closed. Could this be contributing to the problem? Here is the link to the old G+ page:
https://plus.google.com/101964223721336271822/about
5) I've really scoured my citations looking for out-of-date citations and have done a ton of work to clean those up but G is proving slow to index those new citations. My research tells me this is normal. How much could this be contributing to the problem?
6) Brightlocal's benchmarking tool says I have about 160 citations for my business. This is way more than the top ranking site. In fact I have superior results in terms of verification, reviews, citations, domain authority vs. my competition that is ranked at top. I am in the middle of the pack on links.
7) I have read on other posts it can be just simply be a matter of time (2 to 6 months) to regain visibility for this situation.
8) I did use "Ste" instead of "#" in many of the citations. G of course uses # in my G+ NAP. Is this an issue I need to go back and correct with citations?
I hate waiting, but i can do it. In the mean time I can do the drudgery of citation building and work on strong content for links. My biggest fear is ranking will not come back as I wait for six months because I am overlooking something.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Chris Cummins
The big question: Why are my local SERPs stuck and not regaining their rankings?
Here is the G+ listing:
https://plus.google.com/112513526305661424217/about
Relevant Facts (as far as I can tell):
1) My photography studio was ranked three or higher consistently on the blended results and local SERPS for about two or three years leading up to May. Had excellent citations, a good volume of reviews and fairly close to the city centroid.
2) I relocated the business in May to a much better location for less rent that just so happened to be closer to the city centroid. I wasn't keen on doing this for the risk of this kind of thing happening to valuable SERPS but I decided the long-term benefits were worth it.
3) I worked through all of the headaches and confusion of closing Google Places pages, Google Plus business, lost reviews, sunk rankings.
4) The Google + page for the old location is still indexed and visible despite my telling G it has closed. Could this be contributing to the problem? Here is the link to the old G+ page:
https://plus.google.com/101964223721336271822/about
5) I've really scoured my citations looking for out-of-date citations and have done a ton of work to clean those up but G is proving slow to index those new citations. My research tells me this is normal. How much could this be contributing to the problem?
6) Brightlocal's benchmarking tool says I have about 160 citations for my business. This is way more than the top ranking site. In fact I have superior results in terms of verification, reviews, citations, domain authority vs. my competition that is ranked at top. I am in the middle of the pack on links.
7) I have read on other posts it can be just simply be a matter of time (2 to 6 months) to regain visibility for this situation.
8) I did use "Ste" instead of "#" in many of the citations. G of course uses # in my G+ NAP. Is this an issue I need to go back and correct with citations?
I hate waiting, but i can do it. In the mean time I can do the drudgery of citation building and work on strong content for links. My biggest fear is ranking will not come back as I wait for six months because I am overlooking something.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Chris Cummins