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Hmm interesting... from my experience Page Rank can go down if google detects that you are selling links or if you lost some very good and strong backlinks.

Once I had a situation that our client's page rank went instantly down and it came back after two months.

When exactly did it happen?

Probably this will answer your question:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/why-did-my-pagerank-go-down/

Jakub.

yup, but at the moment we don't have enough data to say something more...

Let me know if you find out anything.

Sometimes rankings disappear for a whole month to come back on the same place or even better. There are many possibilities.

Compare this http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change to you Google Analytics data.

Maybe check if the upgrade didn't take place at the same time as the Google algorithm update. Maybe not the website upgrade caused the rankings drop.

301 won't pass penalty. If it would work just as David said, I could 301 that domain to a competitor's domain and smash him down.

But David is right, this is not correct way. It's bad technique, sometimes working well but you never know when it will end and then you'll get hit.

For me the best what you can do is to take care of your backlink profile. If reconsideration request didn't help you must build stronger backling profile, take care of On Page SEO and OFF Page SEO and you will need time and patience.

I have had many situations like yours and it's always pain in the ass.

Ohh, one more thing. Take a look at your analytics and compare to the Google Update timeline. Then you will know what kind of creature caused this mess

If you have some more questions I'll try to help.

Thanks,
Jakub.

We have multiple domains that were previously banned. Reconsideration requests always worked fine.

For me the guy who is doing marvelous work in that field is @richardbaxter check this article http://moz.com/blog/keyword-research-using-categories and dig for some more over the web.

Very nice is also what Wil Reynols from SEER Internetive said couple of times. Just do not hit enter after you type something in Google.

I hope it will help you.

Thanks to Matt Cutts, that EDM no longer working

Hi Stephanie,

Think like Google Bot, if French website i saying "check this Company in Canada it's really great!" How that can harm you?

Seriously, if this link is natural and from good quality webpage you shouldn't worry.

Thanks,

Jakub.

Hi Mark,

In my opinion this two steps should help you crash the wall

1. Try to work with your Domain Authority rank
2. You need more backlinks with your Anchor Text  "kayak fishing"

You have few more links with Anchor Text "kayak fisherman" and you are on the second page.

Regards,

No problem, you must spend few hours to learn full potential of yoast plugin at the beginning it can be confusing. Good luck!

You have another title set in General Settings in Wordpress. That's why you have duplicated title.

This two are good. I would try to find bloggers (followerwonk) writing about books, and ask them to leave a review about their favorite book at this store. It should be simple to get a nice scale.

Next step can be organize contest for best book review. Books as awards, and best reviews you can use as deafult to that product.

If some new ideas will come to my mind, i'll let you know!

btw: this is good topic for brainstorm.

It's typical for new websites, i have few case's that new website on low competition keywords rank very well for few weeks and then boom! Can't see them in first 100. Bonus at the start

I would do some basic link building, few directories(only high quality), few links from social network and it should help. This can also help you: http://www.seomoz.org/directories

Google's Website Optimizer is ok and it's free. I also highly recommend https://www.optimizely.com/ it's paid tool but it's really great. For SEOmoz pro members there is 20% off.

Unfortunately it still works pretty well.

Hi!

You need links, especially high quality links. Start from preparing your SEO strategy, in your case you don't need huge amount of links for your local keywords. If you'll plan everything wisely you will see progress.

You can start from directories that you can find at http://www.seomoz.org/directories this is good start for you.  Think about intresting informations about your niche or about product you sell. Write short press release for local news websites maybe a few actual trends about that kind of business. Search for local journalists which are interested in local business or economy, if you give them interesting info about your business you have chance that they will use it and write something about it. And you will earn link!

You can also write an article to post on site like ArticleBase, remember that it must be unique and good content. Remember about social bookmarking sites, facebook page (i noticed that you already have it), Google+ page and many more.

Hope it will help you.

Good luck!