Rx_Recruiters - 5:15 am on Jan 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

Same problem, no good answer. We have been ranked in the top 3 for sveveral popular search phrases since 1999. Last year, we fell completely off the charts for several terms and phrases, but were completely unaffected for other very similar ones. But here is the weird thing -

An example:

We were #1, #2 or #3 ranked for "keyword1 keyword2" for almost 6 years. We are the world authority for this 2 word search term, and received thousands of visitors from Google every day for it. Then, all of a sudden, we are no longer listed in the top 900 or so for that one particular search phrase. However, if you search for a 3 word phrase containing those same search terms plus any other word, ("keyword1 keyword2 anyotherword" ), we are still ranked near the top.

Could this be anything else but some sort of very strange penalty? We were first severely affected by the June 27 2006 Google "adjustment", and have never fully recovered - espcially for these 2 word phrases. We have a PR 5 main page, with 20 or 30 internal PR 5 pages, and app. 200 PR 4 internal pages, have been on the web since 1998, and added Adsense in 2005. Our rankings never flucuated until we added Adsense, but I have been in contact with a Adsense rep who told me that Google rankings and Adsense are in no way related (I saved the e-mail in which he told me this).

No SEO, just a simple website done in MS FrontPage with no tricks.

[edited by: Rx_Recruiters at 5:27 am (utc) on Jan. 14, 2007]