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how do you get unslapped?

by David
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I'm pretty sure I got slapped, worse than that, I got a client of mine slapped it seems.

Before I did SEO for a local moving company they were somewhere around #50 in Google serps for the keyword phrase: Frederick Maryland movers and Frederick Maryland moving company.

I made them some blogs and worked our way up to #11 and the bottom fell out.

It seems there IS a Frederick Maryland Moving Company.. so I switched gears to the other phrase and it seems pretty obvious that I over used the phrase.

How do I fix this?

I'm a Warrior, I can think on my feet... so...

I made a bunch of posts with out that phrase to "thin out" the keyword density.

Should I go back and edit the posts, the posts that I'm assuming that I over used the keyword phrase?

A couple years ago a fellow Warrior had a WSO for people who were adsense slapped.
He suggested that you open another google account and this time don't go so 'black hat'
(I'm over simplifying)

I DO have two blogger accounts - one for Local Frederick Maryland Business and the other for Addiction topics (I don't mix the two so my clients wont get freaked out to see a
Crack Cocaine Addiction Recovery listing right next to his http://frederickairporttaxi.blogspot.com )

Any ideas gang?

thanks
#google #seo #slapped #unslapped
  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi David,

    I think it would be more accurate to say that you've been sandboxed.

    This is due to having too few backlinks and/or from too few places.
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    • Profile picture of the author yaji
      It took long time to get sandbox issue fixed. Start another keyword or let it settle down for a while and gradullay build your links from various places and use proper keywords with proper density. You'll get there I believe. But be patient and I said it takes time to fix sandbox.
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      • Profile picture of the author David
        Originally Posted by yaji View Post

        It took long time to get sandbox issue fixed. Start another keyword or let it settle down for a while and gradullay build your links from various places and use proper keywords with proper density. You'll get there I believe. But be patient and I said it takes time to fix sandbox.
        Thanks Yaji,

        I did target another keyword phrase for the client, rather than ditch the blogs and start over (I almost did that) I'm using the blogs to pitch a second product that We Help U Move offers.
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      • Profile picture of the author David
        Originally Posted by yaji View Post

        It took long time to get sandbox issue fixed. Start another keyword or let it settle down for a while and gradullay build your links from various places and use proper keywords with proper density. You'll get there I believe. But be patient and I said it takes time to fix sandbox.
        I just wanted to make sure I replied to your reply:

        I followed exactly what you said in this reply and We Help-U-Move is out of the sandbox and performing super!

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        Results 1 - 10 of about 409,000 for frederick md mover

        3 of the top 10!

        frederick md mover - Google Search

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        Results 1 - 10 of about 341,000 for frederick md movers

        4 out of the top 10

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        Results 1 - 10 of about 344,000 for frederick md moving

        6 out of top 10

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        Results 1 - 10 of about 255,000 for frederick MD moving companies

        3 of top 10

        frederick MD moving companies - Google Search

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        Of course I'm counting a listing in the Local Business Results, so in reality there could be more than ten listings on each serps page, but we're in there multiple times for each keyword and that's exactly what I told We Help-U-Move I'd perform for them

        thanks for everyones help and input!!

        this was the first time I got a black eye in SEO
        and I got out of trouble with my reputation intact
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    • Profile picture of the author David
      Originally Posted by dburk View Post

      Hi David,

      I think it would be more accurate to say that you've been sandboxed.

      This is due to having too few backlinks and/or from too few places.
      Thanks D Burk, Am working on backlinks, wasn't exactly sure what to do about it.
      For now the moving company (We Help U Move Inc) has a really interesting side product - a how to pack your life DVD, so I'm using the blogs to promote that rather than simply the main service of Moving in Frederick Maryland.

      You know, right after I'd taken We Help U Move as a client I had to help my two youngest daughters move - one just bought a house and the other got her first apartment...

      Friends and family were at each others throat after the evening turned into early morning.
      Then I watched the DVD videos about "How to Pack Your Life in a Truck"

      I wish we had seen that BEFORE we moved... it really does tell you how to move without going crazy.

      We-Help-U-Move, Frederick maryland's mover
      is where I got sandboxed
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