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You should not use the same keyword in all title tags. So this would be the wrong way to do things

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For city specific keywords first make sure they get traffic by doing some research. If they do then you can target those kinds of phrases within the site.

If not I would target generic phrases such as "dental surgery" and have locations pages set up to assist with your geo targeting.

What if a city has multiple addresses in that area. One page for that city or a new page for each location within the city?

As of today, my page is now ranking 5th on page 1. It is just bouncing all over the place.

If that is the case, why would this page be penalized? Ive never bought links, the on-page isn't totally

spammy, backlink profile isn't all exact match and is a good mix of anchor text and image links. All of the links are legitimately created.

This page for instance was one of my highest viewed pages, has a low BR, high time on site, etc. So its tailored to what people want when searching for this phrase

If I am penalized then it is absolutely beyond me on why I would be.

I write it all. No messages of concern

Are you sure?

It shows up for

"skyward sword walkthrough" "legendzelda.net"

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q="skyward+sword+walkthrough"+"legendzelda.net"+&oq="skyward+sword+walkthrough"+"legendzelda.net"+&gs_l=serp.3...7410.7983.0.8226.4.4.0.0.0.0.100.358.3j1.4.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.rQlX7c8Rr4c&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=97283d9747b20204&bpcl=38093640&biw=1527&bih=899

I will cut back on the phrase walkthrough, but I find it hard to believe that using it in the way I am would cause the page to be penalized. And my other walkthrough pages do not use it like that so it doesn't make sense either.

Is there anything else you can see on the page that would cause this?

I have a site that was rankly very highly for gaming walkthrough phrases. I was ranking #3 for the phrase skyward sword walkthrough

Then it began to drop, despite me building more links (non spammy links) through guest blogs and emailing people requesting they just link to it from their site.

I went in and added more text to the page and it went up a few places but is now gone from the first 5-10 pages.

This has also happened to all of my walkthrough related ranks. My other ranks are still there but these accounted for a large portion of my traffic and is very odd.

My on-page grade is near if not perfect

my page

Some insight would be nice

I am looking for a company or two that serves customers in multiple regions and has their site set up in the best possible way to target those areas.

I would like, if possible, to see an example of a company that has an address in each area served, and one that only has one base location, but travels to serve customers.

Post stuff that would engage them. Tips of the day, related images, pose a question.

Do not make it only about business or links to your site.

If I see a site is linking to my site in an article I will often find a way to include them in one of my updates (if the site is of good quality). Does this count as a link exchange since they are linking to me and I am also linking to them?

Or is that only if it is a sidebar kind of link?

I do a ton of guest blogging. Most of my experiences with it is positive. I is a slow process to write unique content and to find a high quality site to post it on but the links are great and help a lot.

Some negatives - some blog owners will be extremely picky and send back for tons of revisions, but that does not happen often. Also have some sites that shut down after you write for them.

I normally have 1 or 2 links per article. Maybe one in context (if applicable) and one in a bio line. I will generally do 2 links if I can get it to work for 2 different sites of a similar niche.

I do not check PR but I do check domain authority and backlinks to make sure its a high quality site.

Don't think you were hit by panda. That is more so for scraping and content issues. Are you doing any of that? And keyword placement in titles will not have a big impact like that on its own.

Your main page title tag has 4 keywords in there which could be causing some confusion on what the page is about. Try to target only 1 or 2 per page and target other words on other pages. On just a quick look your site does not really seem well optimized with on page factors.

Try using the seomoz on page grader tool to increase your page relevancy.

I think this will remove

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

use it naturally. i just write and dont go out of my way to stuff the keyword into the content in an unnatural way. however on a long page i would say no more than 10 times. and i mean a long page not just a couple paragraphs.

and stop words seem to depend on the context. some keywords naturally include stop words while others just have it in there depending on how a user types.

search engines will ignore to a degree

I would add some content to these pages to help differentiate. None of them are text heavy so it may be hard for spiders to see a difference. Add a summary, maybe a text translation of what is in the vids, etc

One of my businesses is B2B and I have found that engaging people on LinkedIN is a good way to get people back to my FB page.

I join in a variety of groups on there and just talk to anybody in my market

There are no tools you NEED where you have to go out and buy stuff but of course it can make your life easier.

I will give you a basic process to go from.

1. Analyze your company - what kind of people you want to bring to your site.

2. Use the Google adwords keyword tool to do research on relevant keywords. I use the exact match setting. Look for keywords that get a decent amount of traffic, not a huge amount of competition, and would be a good keyword to bring in sales/visits.

Word of thumb is that broad keywords will bring in more traffic but less conversions where longtail less but more conversions.

To look at competition quality you should do an open site explorer run for the top 5 or so results for the keyword you think you would like to target. Check out their links, anchor text, linking domains, PA, DA, etc. See if you think you could match it or do better.

3. After you have selected a keyword (I usually say no more than 1 or 2 a page) begin to implement that keyword on your site's respective page. Write QUALITY content that is NATURAL. Do not keyword stuff. Do not use meta keyword tags. Put keyword in titles, headers, alts maybe a bold or italic, in url if possible...basically all your on page stuff. I love the seomoz on page term grader. Check that tool out and aim for an A.

4. After your page is properly optimized you should begin doing link building. Never buy links, do minimal link exchanges, do not spam forums or comments, or any spam. The best way to get links is to write tons of content to get published on sites that allow guest blogging. Those are great one way links. Just making quality content in general will get you links as people find it and post on their site to share.

This is just a basic process and there is of course a lot to it but this should give you a decent framework to go by.

Feel free to PM me at anytime with questions.

I just read several more articles on that site. Overall junk. I would find a new blog to  get your info from.

I reported one company who made  hundreds of physical listings for having store locations when it was just an internet site with no store. Took a while but about 2 months after I reported them I got an email from Google saying they had looked into the report and thanking me.

Well, some niches just aren't meant for social activity.

However, you can still succeed with the right content. What exactly are you posting to your page? Try going with some creative content ideas or throwing some contests. If your business is a local company, partner up with some local businesses to  give away gift cards and other prizes in exchange for likes. And then promote that contest through each site.

Try running community events and just stuff that will get people engaged. I know one company that runs a FB fantasy football league.