sirkevon - 6:09 pm on Jun 24, 2009 (gmt 0)

I am still experiencing this very frustrating trend of fluctuating rankings on specific keywords. It started late May, early June when a handful of my main keywords went from the 1st page to 3rd, 4th, and even beyond. They kept fluctuating on the time of day as well. During the day, they were dropped and during the evening they'd come back to where they usually ranked. That pattern kept for about 2 weeks, but now it is irregular. One or two of my fluctuating keywords would come back to the 1st page, only to be thrust back to 4th and beyond a day later but would stay that way for a few days longer before it moves again somewhere else.

It's so strange because only a certain few of my keyword rankings is affected, yet others have stayed put. I mean, I haven't done more or less work with the pages that have dropped than the others that have not, so I'm pretty baffled by this dramatic fluctuation. I've seen these particular rankings fluctuate before, but only for about a week or so. It's been almost a month now and I'm afraid this is not going to stop. Also, when my rankings are in the dropped positions, a lot of junk sites are in the first two pages. One in particular is a single page with one backlink and one outbound link that goes to a shopping site like shopzilla. I also see blog posts on the 1st page from a blog that isn't even updated anymore.

The SERPs for my keywords are just ugly looking.