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the site still ranks for its domain name and ranks in the top 10 for other queries - it is just this one keyword that the rank has dropped for - unfortunately it is the websites money keyword

A page of mine  (http://loginhelper.com/networks/facebook-login/) was ranking in the top 10 for keyword (facebook login) and has been for at least 2 months, moving between 5th and 10th.

Suddenly in the last 3 days the rank for the keyword dropped from 7th to 46th, yet none of the other keywords have been affected (they target other pages) and their ranks have continued to improve.

I am trying to figure out what caused this sudden drop in the ranking of 1 page (the page has quality mainly text based content and isn't in the least bit shallow or spammy)

I have been thinking perhaps a crawl or server error may be to cause leaving the page temporarily unavailable or with a big load time... Otherwise what could cause one page to drop so much so quickly whilst other pages improved their rank?

Our policy at the moment accomodates and gets results for everyone, I think we even have a $170 client

It is frustrating though because of the increased admin load (reports and client contact etc). It is annoying when a client will spend $5000 on a radio campaign but thinks that a similar value SEO campaign is too risky or not worth it.

I enjoy working with small businesses from a personal aspect but I feel it is not the best for my business financially

I was browsing around other SEO websites and seeing how they charge upwards of $2500 a month...

In Australia things are a little different, many potential clients gasp in shock at the prospect of paying just $500 a month...

Because of this it seems all the SEOs in Aus have taken to undercutting each other to the point where you can get 'guaranteed' 1st page results for just $200 a month - its become a necessity of doing a guarantee and having a low price just to compete...

How do you find clients that actually have decent budgets? Most of the clients I have so far are from referals from web developers or from my participation on business forums etc. I have thought about trying a telemarketing campaign or a direct mail campaign to try and snag some lawyers, and cosmetic surgeons etc

Has anyone had experience with these methods or can offer any other suggestions to snag clients with deeper pockets?

the seomoz crawler is very conservative and will take a while to pick up on links. This has both good and bad aspects. Don't worry though you can always check in Google's webmaster tools for backlinks to your site.

It usually takes 1-2 months for the mozcrawler to find links to my sites. If you are impatient you can try pinging the links with something like pingomatic.com although i am not sure if the mozcrawler listens to those signals or not....

One of 3 options really:

• they have good contacts who will publish links for them (who you know goes a long way)

• they bought the links (not that uncommon and really isn't paying someone to linkbuild essentially the same as buying links?)

-they lied to get the links

-they have the most amazing and linkable content ever, they are the new lol cats (unlikely though because of the anchor text)

-the company may have hired an offline pr firm to stir up controversy and get editorial articles. I have heard of people creating fake news stories etc just to create a buzz and get attention which converts into links

-maybe you misread the links and they are just from scrapebox or xrumer?

most of the time comments are good if you are willing to moderate them as it draws users into your site more by providing a means for interaction.

It really depends on the purpose of your website: if it was an informational site or review site then comments would be great. If it was a business's website then comments may not be a good idea as they may take off the professional edge unless they are constrained to a blog section.