Local Non Brand Keywords Tanking!
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We have been playing catch up and noticed that in between March and April, one of our sites has seen a drastic decrease in traffic for "city + keyword". All of the other keywords are doing very well.
The site has a page for each location. The traffic for these pages dropped by 33% between March and April. And page 1 rankings dropped by 30% as well. No drastic updates were made during this time.
The traffic and rankings have not came back. This isn't for every location either. It seems very random as far as the drop in rankings.
Did anything happen with local rankings at this time? Did anyone else see this? This is only affecting the Google traffic.
Let me know your thoughts.
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Are these rankings for Maps, or Organic?
Have your competitors (if there really is such a thing) been adding links or have their SEOmoz numbers improved?
Have you made any changes to meta tags? Have you been actively promoting the site in the last three months?
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