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Hi Matthew-

Thank you for your honest and direct reply. This is the sort of information that is particularly helpful to an amateur.

Cheers!

B.

Thank you Calin!

Hi Patrick-

Thank you very much for your thoughts. I will certainly look into all of your suggestions!

Regarding the spammy links you mention, how does that relate to this particular service page? In other words, why the diff between Minnesota and Colorado?

Cheers!

B.

I have a business that provides on-site services out of a central location. For instance in Denver, we have a warehouse location where we can perform repairs but the majority of business is performed within a 50 mile radius of the city center- on-site, a homes, businesses, etc. Our Google local page is set up to reflect this (mobile service as well as physical location). In order to capture business organically within this 50 mile veil, we have set up city specific service pages on our site to reflect the more than 30 municipalities that fit within the 50 mile veil. This strategy seems to work pretty well in Colorado but in Minnesota we are not having the same outcome.

The following city page is created specifically for the term "iPhone repair Minneapolis" and has been live for over a year. It is not even in the top 50. Is this a regional issue or a specific page issue? Our domain actually ranks 15th for this term. http://www.shatterbuggy.com/service-areas/minneapolis/iphone-repair/

Thoughts?

Moosa, Dirk-

Thank you both.

B.

Hi Moosa-

Thank you for the reply. Much appreciated!

Cheers!

B.

Hi Dirk-

Thank you for the detailed reply. Very much appreciated. All of your suggestions make a great deal of sense.

Do you have an opinion regarding linking within the slider though? Specifically, do you know if there would be any advantage to creating static links that are the same as the links that the slider images link to? These would be below the slider.

Cheers!

B.

Our website, http://shatterbuggy.com, has what I believe is a systemic issue that stems from the heavy reliance upon the Revolution Slider for Wordpress. I am not an SEO expert and our site has vexed many SEOs in the past.

We get feedback regularly from customers (especially those that are not tech savvy) that express gratitude for the ease of use via following an image to image sequence to get to their respective booking. This was our goal when creating the site. Incidentally, in many cases, the only linking from page to page is within the slider itself (clickable image) and there is little to no content. That said, we seems to stumble in SERPS against seemingly inferior competition. For example, we should be ranked in spot 1, 2, or 3 ish for "iPhone repair Minneapolis" but rather we are stuck near spot 15.

Any thoughts on whether this is a strategy that may be harming us? If so, would simply creating content on these empty (slider only) pages help? Should we create "static links" that connect to the same places as the slider? Also, is our particular use of the slider creating H1 issues?

Thank you all!

B.