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    • Plato82
      Plato82 last edited by

      http://www.customgreekthreads.com/, we used to rank #1 or #2 for "Greek Apparel", "Greek Clothing" or "Greek Cloths" in google, but since January 21st 2013 (I guess it was after the google update), we started to rank down at around #8 or #9 for these keywrods. Other keywords have also slightly downgraded. Can you check what we might need to do to recover this or if we are doing anything wrong?

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      • CDUBP
        CDUBP last edited by

        Just real quick...

        You have a few validation errors: html css

        You could use placing your keywords onsite as anchor text, and in image alt text.

        Also you should style your text BOLD and Italic with html tags: and , instead of with css how you currently have it:

        You could use a keyword rich

        tag.

        Also the site ranking #1 has about 70,000 more followed links to their site than you do yours.

        Check out this post on a clever way to insert more onsite text when hovered over images.

        Hope that Helps!

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