CainIV - 8:55 pm on Dec 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

Ted - great observations and thanks for putting this all into a more usable context.

Here is another interesting component of this that may shed some light.

A previous page on one of my websites was ranking on page two in Google searches for its main two word phrases.

The page moved up to page one in the last three weeks - right to position 6. This has also happened with different keyword landing pages on the same site.

So it might also be that those pages were locked at the ceiling as well, from ranking any higher temporarily