If I owned a company that did plumbing, electrical and air I would call it EgolServices.com and I would have ONE website.

All of the links that any part of that business earned would benefit the entire domain.

And all of the trust that my plumbing staff earned would generate repeat business when the same client needed air.  All of the trust that my electric staff earns would generate repeat business for my plumbers.

Why make clients make separate decisions when you are out there doing good work?

The big air conditioner that you want in the house will probably need a more substantial wiring.   Just call EgolServices and they will take care of it.

I think that this is a nobrainer.  NoBrainer.

Since you have this site you must be the expert on planning a wedding in Maui?  Is that correct?

If it is then you should be able to prepare the very best guide to planning a wedding there.  It would be a big list of all of the churches, where to get a marriage license, how to hire clergy, where to get gowns, where to get a tux, who are teh photographers, where to get flowers... you get the idea.... this will be the single best one-stop site for anyone who is having a wedding in Maui.

This will be much more than a directory... it will be a guide for how to get things done and an idea source for having a great Maui wedding.  Where to have it outdoors articles, where to have the small ceremony, busy times of year, sunset/sunrise.. .. each of these is an article or a series of articles.   Lots of photos of chapels, outdoor locations, maps, flowers, etc... venues and photographers should cut deals with you for this type of featuring.

That big resource alone should get some links but you can probably figure out a way to get the feature photographers, flower shops, bridal shops, etc. linking to this incredible guide.  You can probably also get some interviews with the media to announce your great website.

This will be a huge amount of work... are you up for it?

Great advice from Ryan... just tossing one more idea out because he mentioned the "beggar asking for handout" concept....

Something that can be very effective is for a small group of competitors entering into a cooperative effort to help one another.  Three or four working together will have an enormous advantage over everyone else.

Maybe you can get a group of people to work on this site with you.?

I never post great articles on a blog.... post them on a dedicated webpage where you have absolute control over formatting, optimization and appearance.  I envision these articles each having a ton of photos with detailed captions.

Post them as pages on your website, announce them on your blog and promote them on your homepage and all across the rest of your site.

I stopped using these types of pages.

In my opinion my long tail traffic suffered and visitor engagement dropped.

Same content before and after...

This was not an extensive text.  Just a few pages.  But I am not using them anymore.  Instead I am going to build bigass pages, which any noob will know how to use... and will appear more content rich to people who visit.

Thanks.

About ten years ago I sold a lot of stuff on Amazon.  Things were going well.  I was the only person selling a nice selection of items.  Then they started to sell the same items - and sold them at such a low price there was no way for me to make a profit.  Impossible. That was just like working really really hard for someone who would become almost an impossible to beat competitor and dominate your SERPs for the next decade.

I was originally using on-page anchor links like this...

Brass Widgets

In my opinion these are some of the most powerful on-page optimization elements that you can use, ranking just below the title tag in their effectiveness.   Perhaps removing them caused the rankings drop and putting them back caused the rankings recovery?

Sometimes I have wonderful images that are relevant to the topic of an article and become part of the article's content.

I have been posting them below the

but above the content of the article.  These images are big and beautiful and I am certain that people like them.

But, I honestly have the same question that you have.  Is this pushing text content down "TOO FAR FOR GOOGLE"?   I honestly think that my visitors enjoy these images... but they don't determine the rankings of my pages in search.

I am confident that the images make a great impression on visitors.  Just, would some assessment done by Google, for example, Panda see them as non-content above the fold.

You never know what google is doing.