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With google you never know exactly why there are dramatic changes in page ranking. Also keep in mind there are over 1.8 Billion websites created every year and depending on the niche of your website there could be other websites which or one reason or another google felt are worthy of higher ranking.

Best advice: hopefully you are passionate about the niche you are in and will continue to share valuable content to your audience which will increase the number of your visitors and of course that matters to your google rankings.

Thanks for the reply, but I thought there were a bunch of "SEO experts" on here who could actually give me some real insights as to what exactly causes a page to drop so dramatically just for one keyword, while keeping the same rankings for other keywords related to my niche.

I'm starting to think that all these so called "SEO gurus" who write articles online (I'm not talking about warrior forum experts) about how to rank higher on Google are just as clueless as everyone else and are just taking guesses and no more.

Is there anyone on here who has experienced this same exact thing and figured out what was causing it that can tell me what they did to fix the problem and get their page back to where it was ranking before?

Telling me that there are over 1.8 billion other websites created every year does nothing to steer me in the right direction. Of course, Google wants good quality content. By the way, you can have the greatest content ever produced for your niche, but if nobody links to it with quality links because they don't even know it exists, your super duper high quality content isn't going to rank very high.

The page I am referring to is an article containing almost 30,000 words with extremely helpful and current information related to my niche. I'm not talking about a spammy "thin content" page here.

In this case, don't over optimize your website and keep adding content on your website - quality and useful content worth reading.

Have you run an SEO audit yet? If you have and saw nothing wrong, I believe it's just Google being unpredictable sometimes. What you can do now is continue doing your strategies that made you rank in SERP before and try adding more.

Leah

Change your search settings to return 100 results and then do page searches for your domain name on your browser for each search results page.

Google hides pages from regular search traffic and when you change that search setting it reveals pages you wouldn't normally find on a regular search page (10 results per search page).

You could also be buried in Supplemental SERPs. Go to the last search results page and scroll down to the bottom, click the "repeat the search with the omitted results included" link. Now go back and do page searches (10 search results per page) from your browser for your domain name.

Let's us Google RankBrain. Google RankBrain is like a "blackbox", sometimes we don't know why it makes a decision.

Hi Wilson,

Give 99% of your energies to the process - creating helpful content, targeting by dotting SEO i's and crossing SEO t's - and give 1% of your energies to getting aka, pondering rankings.

If you focus almost exclusively on giving you find something neat happens; your generosity and detachment moves you up in search.

As for meaning I'd say: billionaires pay hefty salaries to some of the smartest folks on earth to weed out low quality sites and to reward generous, helpful site owners who persistently create thorough content geared toward a targeted reader. More than ever, if you aren't doing these things over years, you will drop from Google's rankings or outright vanish.

Give little thought to the short game and give years to following the fundamentals and you'll be on Page 1 and 2 for pretty competitive keywords. Happened with me and all established pros who focus heavily on long term service over short term analysis.

All the SEO best

Ryan