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Hi Irving,

Many thanks for your comments. Are you saying that even if I fix the over optimisation of the site (which I'm doing now) this domain will always be penalised?

The thing I'm most confused about is how abrupt the drop was, pretty much overnight.

Kat

Many thanks Sergio, I'll read these articles as well.

Thank you Maurizio, I appreciate your input.

Thank you Adam,

This is really useful - I'll get on it, and hopefully Google will start to like us again!

Kat

Hi Adam,

Many thanks for your reply. I'll make the changes you suggest - reducing the occurances of the keywords in title, links and in general.

I can't remove the call to action from that position because the client is insisting on it.

I'm not sure what to do about the backlinks - do you have any suggestions?

Do you think if I make those changes, we might recover our previous rankings? I really was trying to have good quality content at the core of my campaign, and am gutted to feel penalised like this without really knowing what I've done wrong.

However, I want to do things right, and make sure the SEO is solid and future proof!

Thanks again.

Kat

Hi there,

I've been working on this site for three or four months (it was a brand new site), and we were seeing some really great improvements in rankings. I've concentrated on writing lots of good quality content and building a network of links through blogging and social networks.

Then, last weekend (6th October), we got completely wiped off of the results. We went from rankings 2,3 and 4 for our target terms to not being in the top 100.

I assumed we'd been given a penalty from Google as we'd been SEOing too hard and removed a reciprocal links page we had and asked Google to reconsider. I just got a message back saying there hasn't been any manual penalty, so it's just down to the algorithm.

I'm running am SEOMoz analysis, but so far it's just coming up with things like page titles too long and too many links on pages, which I can fix, but don't seem like something that would completely destroy us so abruptly.

I think we really have the most and best content on the subject of becoming a model, which has taken a great deal of effort to put tgether, so this is crushing. If anybody can shed any light, I'll be extremely grateful, and I'd be interested to knwo if anyone else has experienced anything similar.

Thanks in advance!

URL: www.modellingadvice. info

Kat