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I've reviewed the various presentation and blog posts from SMX advanced regarding local SEO and I didn't see any mention of Schema.org and microformats.  Has any research or case studies been presented supporting that implementation of Schema.org microformats will improve local results?

Here is one example where I've implemented the basics in the address info of the footer.

http://bit.ly/lZQYeg

Any tips on how to further optimize with schema.org markup?

I'll be honest in saying I had a couple of sites affected by the panda/farmer update but saw no changes in image search so I really don't think this has anything to do with these updates.  Additionally many have said that if your query drops were not on these update days then you should be looking elsewhere.

Have you seen anything that indicates any loss around the dates shown in my original attachment?  I have a few other similar niche sites which both more and less content than the above described one which saw no changes which additionally says to me that this has nothing to do with the farmer updates.

If anyone else has noticed losses in image search I'd be very interested in sharing data.  And the same for anyone who's simply seen a loss of "image search" queries at anytime.  This is a first for me and I'd love to find someone who has been in the same boat (the image boat).

Hi Seth,

It's an car niche site and we're talking about 100,000 images.  They are all still in the index, just lost their visibility.  Any experience in dealing with "lots" of image search results?  Have you seen an image query results drop like this where the results remain in the index.  Think "farmer" just images and no one else

The site does not have any duplicate content and does not have overly excessive inbound links.  Anchor tags on the inlinks are reasonable distributed.  As to what took place before acquisitions I don't really know but the entire site is in the index and now I'm working hard to improve relevancy for valuable search queries and to increase conversions.

The site is nearly a year old.  The fact that a random page of the site is climbing the ranks for the keyword says to me that Google is not treating the homepage equally.

Looking for any help in understanding what I can do to get my images back up in the images index.  My site took a hit last month which I've been working to get back up but nothing has seemed to push the needle.

Has anyone else experienced such a loss in the image index before?

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I have a site that ranks high on the first page for it's main keyword at both Bing and Yahoo but horribly at Google.  It's a domain I recently acquired and am in the process of optimizing.

My goal is to improve the relevancy for the site in Google so that the site shows up better for it's main keyword.  With that said I've been working on building valuable links to the page and I would like some opinions on why the homepage is not ranking for the main keyword.  Instead I have a junky content page that is ranking for the term.

So in the event that you have a exact match domain showing up very high in Bing and Yahoo but not in Google for the homepage, what factors would you look at?

Add in the complexity that a page other than the homepage is making grounds on the exact match keyword having moved up from "not in the top 100" to the 50's, what's my best solution to ranking the homepage? The site is optimized well and most inbound links predominantly point to the homepage.