Woes in organic ranking... Post Penguin issue?
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Hello all,
First post here.
Site:http://www.symbolphoto.com
I'd done a ton of work to get my SEO where it needs to be, however, after looking at my traffic post April 15-22nd, it's gone completely downhill. I don't rank organically, which i'd like for one single term 'b*ston wedding photographer'.
What am i missing? I'm assuming Penguin may be a part of this, but i haven't participated in any link schemes... am i being penalized and if so, is it evident why?
Help is much appreciated!
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email sent. your most welcome. Hope it helps.
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brend*n at symbolphoto.com replace * with a
Thank you!
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I used funnelweb profiler. Let me see if I can Print or copy and paste the results for you. Ill post back here shortly.
edit:
Where would you like me to send the results? its exporting into html documents.
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Forgive me as i'm new, is there a tool here on the Pro account which gives you all the URL's to the pages which are experiencing the issues you pointed out? Great reply btw, thank you for giving me a course of action!
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In running your site through some tools I think you are hurting for ranking for your desired keyword phrase is because your lacking quality inbound links using that phrase as anchor text. The inbound links that do use that anchor text have poor or low page rank.
There seems to be 19 broken links on your site and 43 invalid urls. 6 pages have too many links, over 160, 54 pages have no keywords, though that may be irrelevant now as SEMOZ says keyword meta-tag is no longer needed, and there is also 24 pages with missing description tag.
I am also showing 109 alt attributes that are missing and these could be a big help with backing up keywords.
I wold suggest joining the chamber of commerce and try getting some quality local links back to your site for your targeted keyword as a start.
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