Ranking well using allinanchor, nowhere to be seen without it

[Silent_Bob]

For the most competitive phrase in my industry, if I use the allinanchor command I come in at #5/6. If I remove it, I drop out of the top 500. I am the only site in the top 10 using allinanchor which does not stay there after removing it. Any suggestions on what this is likely to be caused by?

The obvious answer is on-page optimisation, but since I get crawled daily I've played with this a few times - low kwd, high kwd, title, h tags. The only thing I havent changed yet are the meta tags, because I didn't think google put any weight on these. They currently have the keyphrase repeated once, near the beginning of both tags.

My site is shopping cart driven in asp code.

[jb123]

Thanks, Philosopher.

[Sathish]

coffeebean, jb123 - hope this would give you an insight knowlege about semantic - [webmasterworld.com ]

but dont try anythin new..wait for a while..few of my site are back.. I did not make any changes to those sites..I was jus workin hard towards the inward links.

[jojojo]

how long can a site be like this for? I have some sites that are several months old now in this situation

[Silent_Bob]

My site has dissapeared for my main keyphrase again, but remains at #1 for keyphrases related to pages other than my homepage. All very confusing.

[Sathish]

how long can a site be like this for? I have some sites that are several months old now in this situation

Same here!

My site has dissapeared for my main keyphrase again, but remains at #1 for keyphrases related to pages other than my homepage. All very confusing.

jojojo, Silent_Bob - I would say (make use of this time lag)just don't rely on one site. Keep building more sites (smaller ones) or keep writing more content to your one site.. but small ones or one big site - don't stop getting links.