site dropped from first listing to third page!

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what can i do? my parents have had this site ( masterformula.net ) for 10 years now and it's one of out major sources of income. we sell a product called master formula and most of the time people come to our site looking for that keyword. i switched our server from hostway to ehostpros.com and within a month we stopped getting orders! i went and checked our rankings and we our on the third page on google for the keyword master formula and we have for the last 8 years been ranked # 1. i thought it was because i was put on a shared ip so i bought a new ip just yesterday. I've started linking all of my sites to the domain. does anyone have some suggestions? Well it could be the server switch, but I am not sure. You could start building some backlinks to your site to help. Also, I would try to get some directory listings, especially in DMOZ. I have seen a lot of heavy changes in Google lately, so it could have been one of the updates in the past few months. I do not know quite what your doing with all your sites, could be a penalty, not sure. DO you know exactly when you lost positioning?like in a 3 week period. there were also a few new sites that just started up a couple of months ago that are now getting the top rankings. I've tryed getting listed on dmoz and they won't ever put it on. i think they think we're just a reseller which they don't allow but we're not. oh well I'm starting a new health forum that will be mostly for marketing some of my health sites. that should help and i got that dedicated ip which should also help. any way thanks for the reply.i see that your site is #1 on google in allinanchor:master formula and i assume if for three weeks your site is on appearing even in top 10 then (actually 33) so then you are banned by google. I tried this tool http://www.mcdar.net/KeywordTool/keywordtool.asp and it shows that you are not found in top 100 for allinanchor for master formula so this is strange. But i see that on yahoo you are #1 - so my suggestion is 'wait' in anycase and optimize your page for this key word.I wouldnt put to much in for allinanchor, allintitle or any of the others. I have a few sites that are number one for each of those and still not on the first page, and the opposite. Google is just making changes to their algorythms and other sites are coming up on top. Just because you were at one place for some time, doesnt make you "suppose" to be there always. The first site I ever had was ranked #3 for "mothers rings" (2 years). I didnt work on it for 6 months and it dropped down to the 4th page. SEO is constant work, if you stop, your positioning can decrease. I would focus on the topics in this forum and I am sure you can get it back up there.If you are having problems getitng into DMOZ and you feel the editor may be wrong, talk to the members of http://www.resource-zone.com.Also, if you want to see where your site was a few months to years back, visit the waybackmachine.where in http://www.resource-zone.com do you ask about your dmoz submission?http://resource-zone.com/forum/forumdis ... 64af0&f=22This is one of those scenarios where you think you know what google wants....then you look at the results and they don't make sense. #3 is a site built in flash with only 2 pages in the index and only 1 PR4 inbound link. The is no description of keyword tags and no visible text any where on the page. What the f@#$!Only 2 of the top 10 results go to domain level pages the rest are to low PR pages inside the site.so most likely i broke a rule and i haven't changed anything so it must have been the shared ip i was on.I read an article from google guy that said that hositng does not have any effect on SERPs. If your IP is shared or if it's dedicated makes no difference. So I would not look there for your solution.