Google has a problem with this keyword

[RyanKent]

Michael, I have read everything you shared with an open mind. I have considered everything you shared in your initial question along with the two follow up responses. After giving everything you shared consideration, your situation makes sense to me. It is logical and aligns with my understanding of how search engines work.

To be clear, there are many possibilities and various aspects which can be explored. Within the context of a Q&A forum, there is only so much that can be done. With access to your Google WMT and Analytics accounts along with further research, more information can be gathered and it is possible for other conclusions to be drawn.

We will have to agree to disagree on this topic. I am sorry I was unable to assist you. I sincerely wish you the best of luck.

[mertsevinc]

Thanks Ryan. Take care.

[irvingw]

how about giving Ryan some thumbs up and answered status for all that work and time he put into helping you out

[irvingw]

If you think a short tail keyword for a professional industry like "doctor" is not competitive or hard to rank for you're mistaken I don't even have to look it up.

[mertsevinc]

Sure

[RyanKent]

Irving, I appreciate the support. It is OK, really. Each site owner is entitled to their own opinion. In this case, Michael clearly feels I have not listened to his needs and my response does not address his concern. Accordingly, no thumbs up is warranted.

I sincerely hope others will chime in and try to help address Michael's question. Someone else may have a different perspective.

[mertsevinc]

I am happy that you dedicated time for me Ryan. No worries. Someone else told me that my site contained hacklinks previously and that's why I got dropped to 3 page. Maybe that was the issue...I don't know.

[irvingw]

Well, I know you put a lot of time into really looking into peoples issues to give a proper and thorough answer and i respect you greatly for your SEO knowledge. Some people charge a lot for SEO analysis and have much less experience than you.

[RyanKent]

Your kind words are thoughtful and appreciated Irving. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season.

[irvingw]

How long ago were you told that happened? Hacking with viagra and other links on your site will definitely get your site penalized until the links are all removed. You should be able to see if this happened to your site if it's before your time by looking at traffic history in GA.

[mertsevinc]

Hi Irving,

Well this started to happen couple days ago. I started to optimize my page more relevant to the keyword I was targeting by using SEOMoz's on page tool and some other tool and then suddenly site started move down. It might be possible that during this transition I started to loose some .edu links. I am not really sure the main reason.

I also added Google+ profiles for my authors and increased social activity via Twitter and Facebook which I hoped would actually improve my rankings but it did not seem to have any impact

[alsvik]

Perhaps you are not doing anything wrong, but maybe your competitors are doing something right