Am I In The Sandbox and Why?

Hi. First of all, thanks for helping out. I have been a member for a few years and although I don't post much, I have learned quite a bit from this Forum.

OK...Here goes.

This is in reference to one of my smaller websites. It is http://www.majormedicalhealth.com

I bough the domain about 7 years ago (just a guess) and I write ALL of the content. And I don't copy the content and add it to other article directories etc...

As of last November, traffic was increasing and I was on Page 1 for terms like "major medical health" "major medical insurance rates" etc... Then around December...traffic dropped to basically 0 from Google. Yahoo and Bing still rate me fine. It is starting to pick up a little in Google but not like before.

I have heard suggestions that the Wordpress theme is cheap, I have too many tags and it gives the appearance of stuffing and other suggestions. But nobody knows so I am very open to suggestions to what I should be doing and when/if I will get traffic back.

It's a health insurance site but again, I write the content and it's good original material.

Thanks in advance to all who respond!

Ed

 

Site looks great. Love the color scheme. Looks very professional.

 

Interesting concept for a site. Nice design.

 

First of all let me tell you your website is not in sand box is complete fine and your website is ranked by google...I believe you have to do more work on your website because your competitor is now too strong so you have to work hard ..try to write quality articles and do seo work on your website...This will Resolve your problem

 

Maybe update the top header to look a little more professional

 

Try to get backlinks from .edu and .gov sites.

 

Thanks for all of the replies. I guess I assumed I was in the Sandbox considering how my traffic fell so abruptly.

I will continue to write good content and add some solid backlinks as well.

Thanks again.

 

Do some good promotion (quality) and i believe things should be back to normal.

 

nice domain name

 

Thanks. I was lucky to get it. Hopefully Google will start ranking my content soon.

 

Your site looks fine, it just need some minor superficial touch up. (ie... probably extracted the images on the banner a little bit more professionally) Your site will be fine if you provide unique and interesting contents.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_effect
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=7f20e3124fd3fa41&hl=en

this info about google sandbox, dont give up. ur site is very pro and google sandbox not permanetly.