JoeSinkwitz - 5:14 pm on Jan 15, 2009 (gmt 0)

Shaddows: We track a LOT of sites...a few were mine, but most were not. In some cases a control site was used, resulting in a filter and subsequent return to first page ranking over the time period. Nothing structural changed. The other site lots of changes...still tracking together.

Tedster: The sites I'm most interested in are the ones that were ranking #1-3 for several months before entering an extended yo-yo for all phrases except domain.com; I've seen 90 days on / 90 days off, 45 days off / 45 days on, etc. Some of these sites were strong enough to have sitelinks on generic phrases for a while, so that's saying something.

It occurs to me that I wasn't fortunate enough to see whitenight's ghost dataset. Wanna weigh in on that buddy?

[edited by: JoeSinkwitz at 5:16 pm (utc) on Jan. 15, 2009]