Dropped off cliff for a partic keyword & can't find out why

[SarahinSuffolk]

At the beginning of Dec we ranked consistently in the top 3 for the keyword 'Suffolk' for the site www.suffolktouristguide.com (apge rank 4, thousands of quality inboud links, site age 5 years +). Since then we've been falling off a cliff and today aren't even in the top 50 for this search term, but most of our othr search terms are unaffected. Our SEOMoz grade remains A for 'Suffolk' and we haven't changed anything in that time that could have had such a material effect (knowingly at least). A similar issue happened to my other site www.suffolkhotelsguide.com back in April and it hasn't recovered despite grade A's on the homepage and key pages. We've checked internal broken links, page download times, external links (used the disavow tool and reconsideration request and got back 'We reviewed your site and found no manual actions by the webspam team that might affect your site's ranking in Google'); etc etc Any thoughts on what I can try next? All suggestions appreciated as I am completely stuck (& have spent a fortune on 'SEO experts' to no effect).

[gfiedel]

Hi Sarah,

Our company experienced a similar situation in the past week. I posted a question about it and have received a lot of quality responses that you may find helpful. Posted December 29:<a name="question-1"></a>

sudden disappearance from visibility on Google
I'm so sorry this is also happening to you. It's a challenging situation at best and devastating at worst.Wishing you luck in recovering your position!

[SarahinSuffolk]

Thanks very much Gina - I spent a few hours yesterday working through the responses to your q and will carry on today working through it all. Like you I feel that we run good sites - relevant, topical, up to date content with no spamming, black hats or bought links, so I feel very aggrieved that this has happened after 5 years of hard work getting the sites to rank highly organically. Google is going to put some good businesses out of business at this rate.

I do appreciate your comments and thanks for taking the time to reply to my post. The feedback you received is gold dust so I'll work my way through it!

[gfiedel]

Hi Sarah,

You're welcome! I was glad to have information to share. I have been so impressed with this forum and loving the help I am receiving. It's amazing!

Good luck to you. I hope everything works out.