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Aloha guys,

To start as I always do with the (awesome) Moz community I wanted to say thanks for the insight! This has to be one of the best online communities and help resource with great positive and concise help that really makes a difference, so many thanks everyone! PS I also do my best to relay what I learn here to fellow business owners and point them to SEO boosting avenues to help support the community as much as possible. Anyways...

**My Photo website **

**Current top wedding website (I do enjoy her work!!!) **

Attached below is a link to some stats/graphs!

The Problem!

After the recent Google update last month I've had a drop in my site visibility from 5.8% and some change to now .7% of search volume.. Painful for my photo & video business here on Kauai to say the least.

A few images are attached, is there also any correlations you guys can see or think may help to get my site up to the first page? I know we deliver some of the very best work here on the island and deliver great service too, its a bummer that we cant do more for folks visiting here that dont even know we exist!

The question!

Do you guys have any ideas on what can be done to get my page to gaining organic traction and doing great again? My goal is to have our business rank for Kauai Wedding Videographer, Kauai Wedding Photographer, and Kauai Family Photographer!

My moz dashboard is still saying we're on the way for that but that my search visibility is way way down. Any clarity or ideas are greatly appreciated you guys! I would love to relay this to the wedding community as well!

Warmest aloha from Kauai everybody and have a great day!

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Awesome breakdown and many thanks for your insight!

After checking out what you suggested it became very clear what the 411 was! Lots of good links in comparison to my 1 good link vs 23!

Aloha Moz community!

I've been chipping away on my site and have been happy to see progress on getting to the first page for some searches I'd like to rank for.

That being said and during my time doing this I noticed a fellow photographer jump to the first page out of what seems like nowhere!

http://emilyhelen.com/

It left me scratching my head trying to figure out where and how they're site jumped up to the front so fast and has been holding strong since then. Do you guys have any ideas or ways I could replicate that?

Much appreciated as always guys!

Warmest aloha,

Jon Gibb

Thanks for the response!

So thats the problem, none of them are showing as backlinks anywhere. The non-profit website is pretty stagnant and not changed often but the shave ice one is consistently getting new posts from their social media feed.

And good to know! I will be sure to have that in future websites if I shoot photos to have the link in the body.

So all in all the footer of websites wont really link over then is what I'm guessing? Both sites are squarespace sites as well.

Many thanks!

Aloha everyone!

I've asked questions to the Moz community before and have always been happy to see how responsive and helpful the community is as a SEO learning new comer! Many thanks in advance for any ideas or insights to solving this problem.

So here is my question, I own a wedding photography business here on Kauai and am looking to rank for a few things, Kauai wedding photographer, Kauai Wedding videographer, and Kauai family photographer. That aside I've been pouring more time into getting back links from people I've shot with here on Kauai (local business's websites etc) and have had links dropped in on their sites to, in theory, bump my rankings up from back linking my website.

Here's my website http://www.balihaiphoto.com/

Here's a few sites but are not showing up as backlinks/pushing my site higher on SEO results (screen shot as well) http://www.haleleakeiki.org/ (bottom of page footer linking to BaliHaiPhoto.com) and another site here

http://www.wishingwellshaveice.com/ with the same thing, footer link pointing to my website.

Both sites have been indexed and the shave ice one gets a good amount of traffic, does anyone know why this isn't showing as a back link or if its passing on any link juice my way? Should I do something diffrent here? Let me know what you guys think!

Aloha from Kauai,

Jon Gibb

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