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Wow - that package reads like a step-by-step recipe for how to get your site and rankings HAMMERED by algorithmic penalties.

I would stop worrying and keep optimizing. I can't say specifically, but my guess is that all other things being equal, a good Places listing could potentially draw more attention. But who cares, keep building, keep promoting, keep marketing. Get exposure any and every way you can.

I agree with everything inhouseseo says above. Sound advice. I've recently been looking at the wedding niche with a view to finding guest post opportunities, one thing that came to light is there's a ton of blogs out there that love publishing series of photos from weddings. I'm not sure where you stand with ownership of the photos and whether you have the right to publish without the consent of the 'models'. Theres a great opportunity to assemble 10-15 shots write some commentary and then create a series of posts using 6/7 different shots from the collection and differing comments and post them around various wedding. Myblogguest.com is great place to start. I think this could be the cheapest/quickest way to get the links your looking for. Best of luck and I sincerely hope you get your old positions back. Regards Aran Ps.(oh and in the mean time you might wanna hit facebook/twitter/pinterest and post some photos, connect with your target audience, it could drive some valuable traffic in! and it just might help you rank)

I have found Google Alerts to be really unpredictable.  I have one set up for my url and for months I got no alerts.  They recently started coming again, but if I add 20 pages in a week I may get 2 alerts.  It's very sporadic!

There's a good idea. Turn the B*stonWeddingPhotographer.com site into a review site.