Why did my site drop 6 pages over night?
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Well I wish Google would get on it and hurry up and merge them because the listing is hard to find on Google Maps and never comes up in the front page map.
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That's interesting. Consolidating the listings will improve your changes of ranking in places as having multiple listings with the same address & phone number has a negative effect on ranking.
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I totally agree with Scot
By expanding the descriptions on the photos you can also help diversify the words on the page. It may be that you are over-optimized right now, and adding extra words will actually bring you in balance.
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I do have a google places listing as well as a google plus local profile for photojennette set up.
http://plus.google.com/114370561649922317296
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=photojennette&ie=UTF-8&ei=ZcGwUf-4E4nJrgHTk4BY&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAg
Is this what you're talking about? I actually have another forum post about deleting one of them and have been advised that google will merge the two in the coming months.
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Jonathon,
While many of your competitors do have some type of gallery many of them have also been able to have a balance between text / HTML. Your pages, while they show the prospective bride's a beautiful gallery of her work, there is just not enough text for Google to consider for indexing.
Consider adding more textual copy about the photos, where they were taken "an austin wedding". The idea behind snippets in the images should help the pictures show up in Google Universal photo search. One thing to note is that your site is not currently listed in the Universal search for Google Places - this is the localized search for the "austin wedding photographers" keyword phrase. I would consider this to be a critical issue in driving business. https://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=142902&topic=1660711&parent=1656746&rd=1
This will at least give you another avenue of page 1 placement while you continue to tweak the site.
Scot
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