Google search results question

Hello,

I am new to the Warrior Forum and can't think of anyplace else to ask this question and get a decent answer.

My website is at instantt1prices.com. When I look up "Instant T1 Prices" with the quotes in Google, the third listing is a link to my website from HotFrog.com and the fifth listing is a Bulletin Board page on my website.

Now I know that no one is going to be searching for this particular keyword necessarily but my website is number 1 on Yahoo for this keyword.

I don't understand why a HotFrog listing would show up and my homepage wouldn't.

The reason I am asking is I wanted to start doing some article marketing for this website but I don't want to waste time doing that if Google is penalizing my site for some reason.

My website is an affiliate website from the old Cognigen (now Commission River), so it mirrors other sites out there to a large degree but there are other old Cognigen sites out there like mine that are ranking highly in this niche with no problem.

I hate to give up on this site because I have almost $100 per month coming in from residual commissions. I know it's not much. I used to advertise with Adwords but it began to lose it's effectiveness.

My goal is to put all my commissions, as little as they are, into article marketing and link building to hopefully get some traffic flowing.

Does anyone have any suggestions before I start spending time and money on article marketing and link building strategies?

Any help would be appreciated.