My site at www.juarez-mexico.com was #2 under keywords "Juarez Mexico" and #5 under "Ciudad Juarez" the most frequently used keywords when looking for information about the city. It was there for over six months.

On January 25th, like thousands of other sites, it went into a black hole, appearing now only in #8 position under the broader keyword 'Juarez'. It also appears as #1 if you type "Juarez <anything>", such as 'Juarez Restaurants', 'Juarez Nightlife', etc.

Can anyone see anything wrong with my index page?

A friend told me that when you use your keywords in the ALT tags of images which also serve as links that this could trigger the filter. I have fixed this problem, and tried cutting down the number of times I use the targetted keywords in the text, thinking that perhaps I was spamming them.

Although it is showing an older cached page today, I know the googlebot has scanned the corrected page because earlier in the week it was the corrected page in the cache, so either that was not the problem or Google has simply not updated the index.

Here finally is one strange clue:

When you preface the search terms with the "allintext:" operator, you get the old results!

allintext:juarez mexico
or
allintext:ciudad juarez

both put me right back on top.

Using the "intext:" operator returns the same results as not using any preceeding operator at all.

It's as though Google simply changed from "allintext:" to "intext:" as the default for searches.

I am curious if any other missing sites show back up using the "allintext:" operator. ???

At any rate, any suggestions you might have would be very appreciated. Traffic has not decreased that much, but I want back into the #2 spot again.

I'm out of ideas.