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I own a car shipping business (www.carshippingcarriers.com) and I was ranking very high last year, but around the end of August our site lost a TON of rank.  Afterwards I had my SEO team at the time (no longer working with them) do a complete overhaul of the website (rewrote content, combined many pages together so no duplicate content issue, made it mobile friendly, etc..  Since then we continue to still lose rankings on Google.  Yahoo and Bing seem to keep performing decently, but Google we are getting destroyed.

I have been a member of Moz for a few months and I have been using the open site to check my competitors and their linking profile.  One in particular, www.joescarshipping.com, has been ranking extremely well and the site looks horrible, doesn't have many links, hardly a social media presence, etc..  Compared my my website which has ton of content, articles on our website, social profile is great (tons of Google+ usage), not a ton of links so a decent amount of links, etc..  Why would a company like that be ranking so high while I keep falling?

Any advice or reasoning as to what is wrong or what could be done to get better rankings?  I am just at my wits end on this matter.

Matt, I took some of Dirk's words to heart so all last night I took out the pictures that were on my homepage, but them the website looked very dull.  I then added content, but then my website looks even more dull because it didn't have pictures.  So, I decided to change my theme.  That is why it looks like my website is not indexed properly.  I will go through and check the amount of times the keyword and get rid of some.  I wasn't even trying to be spammy.  I literally wrote this content yesterday night and went to sleep.  I will change it for sure.  Question though, instead of have "car shipping" so many times could I edit some of the '"car shipping" words to "auto transport", "car transport", "auto shipping", and vehicle transport" instead of getting rid of the word "car shipping" for some of these?

As for the links: I didn't know I had garbage backlinks from foreign countries.  Not sure how that even happened.  I surely know I didn't do that.  I have not done any back linking from anything besides reliable directories (yahoo local, yelp, vimeo, and etc..  Then you mentioned the auctions websites for selling cars.  Not sure how those occurred either.  It looked like they took a picture of mine and then tried giving me credit.  It is stuff like this as to why I am looking for a link building strategy/company to do all of this for me.

Matt, thank you for taking the time to send me all of this.