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It has all original content, and is highly ranked for a number of keywords (first 10 hits on google).
However, for the main keyword (the name of the medical condition), it does not show up at all in any of the 500 search results on google! I have used all the basic SEO techniques in the past few years, and also have at least 20 other sites linking to mine.
There are numerous other sites on this medical condition that are spam sites or pages such as Yahoo Answers questions that appear on a google search results page for this medical condition. Even press releases about spam products to cure this condition show up. My site appears in msn and yahoo searches, albeit around result number 200-300 in each.
The conspiracy -- I know that the one surgeon who is the main advertiser with google adwords for this medical condition blocks his ads from showing up on my site where I use adsense. I am wondering if by giving a negative vote to my site <snip> and being the main advertiser with google, he has an impact on how google ranks my site for this main keyword. I know that if highly regarded sites link to yours, your ranking goes up. What if highly regarded advertisers refuse to advertise on your site where you use adsense? I am sure google will say that someone else can not influence your ranking negatively. This surgeon has also done a superb job with SEO to get his site ranked highly. He is a shrewd businessmen <snip>. <snip>
Everyone who searches for this keyword sees his website first or second, and his ads on the top and on the right side via his adwords spending. Thereby, he gets more customers! Customers don't get a chance to ever see my site discussing [treatment] alternatives (and not selling anything).
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You say you have at least 20 sites linking to you, where do you get that figure from? Google? Yahoo?
That seems a very low figure, I would look at increasing the amount of relevant (related conditions etc..) links you have pointing to your site.
My site does show up if I put the main keyword followed by other words.
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I would seriously go about looking for some new links to point to your website ensuring that they are relevant.
Where possible approach some of the sites that already rank highly for the desired search term and see if there is any way that they will link to your site, your site sounds as if it has some quality content on it that could be of value to their visitors.
Don't waste your time looking for an off-site solution like a link building scheme. Your solution is within.
The thing is that most of the 500 search results for my topic have fewer incoming links than my site does! And mine doesn't show up as part of these 500.
Hmmm, could that be a hint, hint? Do you have "too many" links? Too many outbound links?
Someone on another site mentioned that I have no incoming links with the main keyword in the anchor text of the incoming link on the linking site. So now I am e-mailing those site owners to change the anchor text where they link to my site.
Will see what happens.
Note that for other related keywords, my site appears quite high on a google search results list. It just doesn't show up anywhere for a search of the main keyword, which is already in my title, headers, meta tags an so on.
Its strange that a Yahoo Answers page on this keyword from a year ago shows on the first page (100 results per page) of a google search for that keyword, while my significantly older more accurate and informative site doesn't show up anywhere.
Also, some of the sites that show on on the google search have 2-3 pages of content that hasn't been updated for years! I have much more updated and better content than those sites in my humble opinion!
