Looking to hire someone to help on my website. On page issues with subpages outranking homepage

[nux]

Hello, I have a site that has been doing good for quite a while now.  But lately I'm running into issues with on page seo.  I have ranked well for long periods of time, but changes like adding content or moving stuff around has bumped me out of the rankings.  I would prefer not to publicly disclose the site.

My main keyword I rank for is "word1 word2".  I notice if I do a site: search for "word1 word2" homepage is #1, site search for just word1 it's #1 as well, but the word2 returns a category listing above the homepage.  I noticed this happen right as I fell back from the rankings.

I am looking to hire an SEO profession to help me out with on page issues.  I've come to admit that I just don't understand something about this and I need help from someone who has a lot of experience with this.

I was hoping to find recommendations by people here for a company I could hire for this.  I would want to pay no more than $1,000.  I hope that budget is high enough to get a skilled individual/company working with me.

I'm not sure where to search for online to get a skilled on page seo professional, so I thought a personal recommendation from someone here would possibly be able to help.

Thanks

[ResslerMotors]

I would test the difficulty of each keyword, and get a sense of what your competition is doing for on-page SEO.  Something people optimize more for one word than the other.

That being said, I would look for a person who specializes in on-page: Code, Content and Connectivity

[KeriMorgret]

Nux,

Do feel free to ask a question in private Q&A. It's private, so it is not indexed, and not visible to anyone but SEOmoz staff and associates (who are all under NDAs) and yourself. You can name the sites in question, and get a bit more of a personalized response and some direction there in addition to what you're getting here in public.

You get one private question a month as a pro member, and this sounds like it could be a good reason to use that private question credit.

[nux]

I've asked about this issue before, and got a decent response.  But It didn't accurately identified my problem.  Maybe I could ask again and see if I could get another person to respond.

I was just hoping to skip all the run around and pay a reputable company to tell me what's wrong and exactly how I can fix it.