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(Entry was posted by Robert Russell on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 02/18/2014).

Seemingly overnight I went from spot A for "carpet cleaning Windsor" to G or lower.

Hello Eric from ewebbiz referred me here to ask this question.
Seemingly overnight I went from spot A for carpet cleaning Windsor to G or something . No changes to local profile can`t figure this one out . Took me until September last year to get to A now here we go .?
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  • Robert Russell: Hello Eric from ewebbiz referred me here to ask this question.
    Seemingly overnight I went from spot A for carpet cleaning Windsor to G or something . No changes to local profile can't figure this one out . Took me until September last year to get to A now here we go .
  • Shawn Cohen: What kind of tactics did you use to get the top spot?
  • Andy Wigglesworth: Hi +Robert Russell ;

    Apologies in advance I am not trying to be an arse :(

    I'll have to admit, I am a bit confused with what you've done or are trying to do....

    You have two URL's on your profile -

    Both carpet cleaning services - both same addresses? both have the same phone numbers, one of the sites email contact address goes of to a random domain for sale, one of the domains footer area looks broken and unreadable.. both websites use the same logo... some pages are broken and show broken sliders, others have lorem ipsum...

    You could also do with turning your permalinks to /%postname%/ just to make them human readable URL's...

    imho I would concentrate and get one of your sites fully fixed and sorted!
  • Jeremy Estes: If this is your website I have a couple of questions:
    http://carpetcleaningwindsor.net/

    1. When did you start linking out to a roofing company from your home page using carpet cleaning anchor text?

    2. When did you start using exact match type anchor text for your sitewide links (like the ones in your footer)

    3. Have the site permalinks (URLs of your inner pages) always been set at default?

    I haven't looked at your G+ business page, but that site looks kind of spammy.
  • Robert Russell: That site is a bit of a fail . I made it to try out different techniques . Rookie split test my main site is elementsrestoration.ca . I will start the clean up tonight . Do these sites affect my Google local ? Thought it was citations and directories based. The weird thing is still in a spot for carpet cleaning companies Windsor . 
  • Jeremy Estes: Website is definitely a major factor in local search. ;http://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors
  • Robert Russell: The only thing I can think of causing this is exact key word in forum signature 
  • Robert Russell: +Jeremy Estes thanks for the insights I'm working on it now. Permalinks were always default and cleaning up links on page . wow what a mess 
  • eBizWebpages: Hello +Robert Russell
    Glad you made it. This is a good group.

    - Eric W.
  • Robert Russell: Thanks +eBizWebpages ; I have already made many ,many changes . ;
    Here is my local page
     ;https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/107616551599811741031/+ElementsrestorationCa/posts

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