Question regarding datacenters?

do google results follow datacenters or vis versa?

[kanetrain]

My site was unexpectedly (of course) dropped from a 1 ranking to "nowhwhere in this universe" on our most important keyword. On www2 we are still on the top and www3 we are still on top as well, but for all other datacenters we are gone. Our site still shows up well for all other keywords, but for this one, we are getting killed. Does anybody know what may be going on at Google and also is there hope that this is just a fluctuation? Could my site return to the top? It's been fluctuating back and forth a little today. Any thoughts?

[Marcia]

This has happened to several people in scattered reports but no one's got to the bottom of it.

I didn't get the bottom dropped out, but I've got one site that keeps dropping down every few months from top 5 to almost #20 for what *I* think is the main keyword phrase, though it may not appear that that's the main one to others. And then it moves back up again.

By any chance, do you happen to know the percentages or proportion of inbound links to the site for the keyword that got the boom lowered on it compared to the others it's still ranking for?

How about the number of pages within the site dedicated to that keyword compared to other keywords?

[kanetrain]

It's got loads of inbound links using that keyword. The keyword is the domain name...
search term = keyword
url = keyword.com.

You can imagine, I have hundreds of inbound links for that search term from within my site and also from other sites. When they link to me they link to keyword.com. It's back up today. It has fluctuated a ton lately.

[Marcia]

kanetrain, what percentage of those links has the exact same anchor text? Is it all of them by any chance?

[kanetrain]

Yes, msot backlinks are just the name of the site which is also the keyword. Is that what you were asking?

[AmericanBulldog]

Kanetrain,

I have been experiencing the same thing since fri. on one site, main kw-kw combo has dropped to 472 from #1, all other kw combos rank well.

I have noticed it only on DC and it appears at any time www, www2 & www3 are pulling their results from DC.

Most but not all incoming links have the same anchor text.

[kanetrain]

I've seen it flutuate a ton over the last 4 days. Today, I am #1 on all datacenter except www-cw and www. Yesterday I was at top for all except cw. Looks like they are pulling results from cw right now.
It's just bizarre. It's not like the site is getting penalized (we know up just fine for all other keyword combinations), but just for the name of our site (also this keyword), we are getting hammered. I certainly hope google doesn't continue this. Right now, when people search for our site, by our domain name (without the .com of course) we don't even show up.
Weird thing is, I have not noticed this happening for any other sites who have the domain name that is the keyword. I'm not noticing discrepancies. AmericanBulldog could you pm your keyword that you are seeing the discrepancy on? I'd like to run some compairisons with mine.
It appears that in some instatnces, the google algorith is punishing sites that have the keyword as their domain name.

[AmericanBulldog]

Kane,

My site in question has the kw's in the domain, but it is a 2 out of 3 not the whole domain name.

I have other kw domains not being affected this way which makes it even more curious.