Disappearing refreshed homepage

I have to push the search button twice

[Brian]

Can anybody guess why, when Google refreshes it frequently drops my homepage unless I push the search button twice? This happens on IE and Netscape, using Yahoogle and for other users in different countries - so it can't be a problem at my end. Also, it can't be a rogue data center because it never happens the other way around when my homepage does sometimes appear. It never happens, for instance, that my homepage appears, then I click the button twice and it vanishes. Also for a single session, once my homepage has appeared it will stay for any number of pushes of the button.

I don't see (a) why it doesn't come up in the first place (leaving me represented in second place on the results with my second-best ranked page, usually the sitemap);

and (b) how it is you can prod Google with a second push of the button.

It's really weird and has been happening for months,

[Brett_Tabke]

Ok, back up and describe just what you mean. I'm confused by some of your terminology. What do you mean by "refreshes"? And what search button are you referring to?

[Brian]

Ok Brett: Here we go. 1: site deep crawled. 2: Dance. 3: Homepage #1 for critical keywords MYBUSINESS NAME. 4: Freshbot calls. 5: MYBUSINESS NAME gone. 6: Push the Google search button a second time. 7:MYBUSINESS NAME reappears with freshtag, then maybe next day without.

This happens on a variety of terminals, in different countries, on Yahoogle, and IE or Netscape.

At the beginning of each month it reverts to normal again.

The page is highly-powered on its terms with off-page elements (PR, anchor text, ODP, Yahoo etc (although many links point to www.myname.com while the url is myname.com).

However, it has not been too strongly-powered with on-page elements. This made me wonder if the algo reads fresh pages differently from monthly-crawled pages.

But that doesn't explain the fact that Google responds differently if it is interrogated a second time with another button push.

Thanks for your thoughts. My problem might be pointing up something of general interest, but I can't deduce what.