Mystery of vanishing homepage

Where does it go?

[Brian]

I have a personal site [myname.com....] But when Google refreshes the front end it commonly drops my homepage and bumps up a high ranking internal page. If I hit the search button a second time, however, it then puts up the homepage. I am, of course, profoundly vain and am more than happy to push the button twice to get my homepage, but I may be in a minority.

Does anybody know what could be going on and, more importantly, whether I can stop it?

[Lawd Have Mercy]

Try emptying your cache. I had the same problem and got rid of all my junk by going in IE Tools>Internet Options> Temporary Internet Files>Delete Files.

Hope that helps!

[ciml]

Normally, something like this is due to the page not being in the full update, then reappearing (with a little green date) as a Fresh listing.

I started noticing this on a couple of sites after the October update. I saw it today on another. Just the home page disapears, but the interior pages still get their PageRank (presumably via the home page). I can't explain it.

[Brian]

Thanks for your replies. I don't think it can be a browser issue, as I have found the same phenomenon on other systems. It also occurs when I use Yahoogle

My current speculation is that it may be linked to another thing I've noticed. I set up my homepage as myname.com. But my highest-ranking inbound link is to www.myname.com. Google sporadically lists the www version, while AltaVista now list them both.

I'm wondering if Google's freshened index (with the date) looks at myname.com, finds it to be missing that powerful inbound and selects other pages on my site.

Why the problem should resolve when I hit on the index a second time, I'm not sure.