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Hi Joel, I have been working on this for a few weeks now and nothing that I have encountered in business has been this difficult or frustrating. I am just a small business owner trying to make a living. You are correct it is a grind. I think that I read somewhere, there is so much information some good and some not, that the algorithm looking at KWS was part of the panda update that happened on April 24th and that is when We dropped off the grid. Don’t know if anyone can confirm that. I have been monitoring the competition and realize that we are not page one worthy yet and we were working on improving from page four for a very competitive market. Now we are nowhere. One example of a search that led me to believe that it might be KWS is as I mentioned adding one of the keywords, photo or canvas to a search. Example: Gallery Wrap vs Museum Wrap  -  #2 on Google but if you add Photos or canvas or both we are not in the top 200. I contacted Google – their reply was no manual penalty was imposed. Can’t afford to wait it out, so I guess I will rewrite my content to please Google.

Thanks for the reply, I do agree that moving forward with better SEO including link building is important and intend to peruse those efforts. Right now I am just about out of patience and income from this drastic fall from Google. The first things that I feel I need to eliminate are the possible technical errors. For example the search test on Gallery Wrap vs Museum Wrap. Where the addition of the word Photos or Canvas takes us out of the top 100. By the way these all are #1 on Yahoo and Bing. Also the return of a totally different page for the Free Digital Proof search? I don't think this is links!

Thanks, I guess my best bet is to get with Bluehost on this! Thanks again for your help.

No, there were no warnings in Webmaster tools regarding the harmful backlinks. I discovered this in checking the site. I wanted to know if there was any way to remove these links or let Google know that the links are not something that we wanted or paid for or arranged from any third party. _Google should have a method for website owners to submit a website that is linking to them that they want Google to block or ignore for rankings purposes.  _

Yeah, unfortunately somebody bought paid links, which was probably were you were getting most of your traffic from for awhile, until it stopped working. To be honest, attracta doesn't seem like the type of company to do that, but you never know. I'd like to say that by removing those links your rankings will automatically recover, but that may not be the case. At best, it may lead to partial recovery. In cases like these, some webmasters are even walking away from their URLs entirely and starting over with the same site at another address. Regardless, the only way to really remove the links is to write each of the webmasters in question, and ask for removal. Sometimes this has to be repeated over and over again and even then you only see about a 20% success rate. Over time, some of these links will disappear by themselves. Really, the best thing you can do now is start building new links. In many ways you're starting from the beginning, since your previous success was built on something that wouldn't last. (that said, if you do have major errors in your SEOmoz PRO campaign, I highly advise you to fix them)