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When googling on www.google.ca for "wedding invitations" and in my own geo location market of Toronto, my site - www.stephita.com, will show up differently on SERP on desktop (Chrome & IE) vs. mobile (iPad, iPhone, android, etc.). On desktop SERP, I will show up 6/7 position...  (which is relatively a new position, the past 3 weeks - I was previously on page 2)  (After a bunch of SEO fixes, I've managed to propel my site back to page 1!) On mobile SERP, I only show up on 1/2 position on PAGE 2 😞 As I mentioned above, I did a bunch of SEO fixes that I think were related to Panda/Penguin algos.  So I'm wondering why my MOBILE SERP has NOT improved along the way?  What should I be looking at to fix this 5-6 position differential? Thanks all!

I've been trying to figure out why my site www.stephita.com has lost it's google ranking the past few years.  I had originally thought it was due to the Panda updates, but now I'm concerned it might be because of the Penguin update.  Hard for me to pinpoint, as I haven't been actively looking at my traffic stats the past years. So here's what I just noticed.  On my Google Search Console - Links to your Site, I discovered there are 301 domains, where over 75% seem to be spammy.  I didn't actively create those links. I'm using the MOZ - Open site Explorer tool to audit my site, and I noticed there is a smaller set of LINKING DOMAINS, at about 70 right now.  Is there a reason, why MOZ wouldn't necessarily find all 300 domains? What's the BEST way to clean this up???  I saw there's a DISAVOW option in the Google Search Console, but it states it's not the best way, as I should be contacting the webmasters of all the domains, which is I assume impossible to get a real person on the other end to REMOVE these link references. HELP! 🙂  What should I do?

My site: www.stephita.com, is based in Toronto, Canada. It used to rank top 3 in local and national searches for "wedding invitations" and "wedding invitations toronto".  I've now been placed on the dreaded page 2 ;| I didn't keep up with the times and news, and wasn't aware of Google Panda Penalty until earlier this year 😞 So, I've cleaned up most of my site with what I suspect what caused me to drop: a) Cloaking pages - I had PHP script generate about 1000 pages of "cloaked" pages.  This has been removed, and I've used Google webmaster tools to "remove" the directory as well. b) Duplicate Content pages - (not cloaked, but I've done content writing on the majority of my product pages) The 2 items above is what I "assume" caused a Google Penalty...  I started this cleanup endeavour late January, and with the content writing to remove what MOZ tools notices as duplicate pages. I've read online that Panda is now part of the search algorithm.  So does that mean, ideally, I should start seeing "better" ranking results now?  Or is there a process I should be following and submitting my site for "reconsideration"? Thanks all!

I haven't been paying attention to my sites SERP for the past year, and only realized I've dropped to page 2 on a keyword search. Specifically, on Google.ca, searching the keywords "wedding invitations" My site, www.stephita.com, used to consistently rank in the top 3 links.  While my competitors have leapfrogged me. 😞 I realized that my site wasn't "mobile-friendly", and had a few other issues like keyword stuffing, long meta descriptions and titles.  I've fixed these issues "now", but wanted to know does this mean my site was severely penalized by the Panda/Penguin updates for the last few years? Does having a PR3 site mean anything?  My competitors who our rank me on SERP, are all PR1 sites. Greatly appreciate any feedback you can give me! 🙂

My website, http://www.stephita.com/ used to appear on the first page of my "locally" searched terms on www.google.ca.  Specifically, when users searched for "wedding invitations", we would appear between 1-3 on the rankings. Sadly, I "ignored warnings" of making my site "mobile friendly" for too long, and only recently made drastic changes to my site to get it to "mobile friendly" status. So, I've fallen far in the SERP, down to the dreaded second page, for my keyword search: "wedding invitations". The "mobile friendly" version of my site has been up and running for about 1 month now.  My site's home/index page has a PR3, compared to all the other sites that have leaped frogged mine are all at PR1. Does anybody know the likelihood that my site will ever see the page 1 daylight again? 😞  Or has Google Penalized my rankings 😞 Very much appreciated any help the community can provide!