Half my ranks have gone missing

[webfeatseo]

I have a site that was rankly very highly for gaming walkthrough phrases. I was ranking #3 for the phrase skyward sword walkthrough

Then it began to drop, despite me building more links (non spammy links) through guest blogs and emailing people requesting they just link to it from their site.

I went in and added more text to the page and it went up a few places but is now gone from the first 5-10 pages.

This has also happened to all of my walkthrough related ranks. My other ranks are still there but these accounted for a large portion of my traffic and is very odd.

My on-page grade is near if not perfect

my page

Some insight would be nice

[irvingw]

that page is penalized. even for very specific searches it doesn't come up which means it has been ranking suppressed for the keyword phrase "skyward sword walkthrough"

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q="skyward+sword+walkthrough"+"legendzelda"+&oq="skyward+sword+walkthrough"+"legendzelda"+&gs_l=hp.3..0i8i13i30l4.7092.9003.7.9411.2.2.0.0.0.0.290.570.2-2.2.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.sczSUg-7jTk&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=b39faaa35e24e4ae&bpcl=38093640&biw=1920&bih=870

If it has happened to your other walkthrough related pages look at the use of overusing "walkthrough" on your site anchor texts and on page density

[webfeatseo]

Are you sure?

It shows up for

"skyward sword walkthrough" "legendzelda.net"

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q="skyward+sword+walkthrough"+"legendzelda.net"+&oq="skyward+sword+walkthrough"+"legendzelda.net"+&gs_l=serp.3...7410.7983.0.8226.4.4.0.0.0.0.100.358.3j1.4.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.rQlX7c8Rr4c&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=97283d9747b20204&bpcl=38093640&biw=1527&bih=899

I will cut back on the phrase walkthrough, but I find it hard to believe that using it in the way I am would cause the page to be penalized. And my other walkthrough pages do not use it like that so it doesn't make sense either.

Is there anything else you can see on the page that would cause this?

[irvingw]

yes unless you have a major penalty you will always showup for "domainname.com" in quotes in search.

search for your exact meta description in quotes and your site is supposed to show up at the top

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q="Skyward+Sword+Walkthrough:+Complete+Skyward+Sword+walkthrough+for+the+Nintendo+Wii."&oq="Skyward+Sword+Walkthrough:+Complete+Skyward+Sword+walkthrough+for+the+Nintendo+Wii."&gs_l=hp.3...3182.4158.0.4610.3.3.0.0.0.0.278.825.2-3.3.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.caewQJ0hyCQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=78aa28c7ee941c66&bpcl=38093640&biw=1920&bih=870

[MarieHaynes]

Do you have any messages in your WMT?

If you look at your analytics traffic sorted by organic traffic can you tell what day the drop happened?

Is your content completely written by you or do you get it from another source?

[webfeatseo]

I write it all. No messages of concern

[webfeatseo]

If that is the case, why would this page be penalized? Ive never bought links, the on-page isn't totally

spammy, backlink profile isn't all exact match and is a good mix of anchor text and image links. All of the links are legitimately created.

This page for instance was one of my highest viewed pages, has a low BR, high time on site, etc. So its tailored to what people want when searching for this phrase

If I am penalized then it is absolutely beyond me on why I would be.

[MarieHaynes]

Can you tell what day the drop happened?

[webfeatseo]

As of today, my page is now ranking 5th on page 1. It is just bouncing all over the place.