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My site has been up for a year and a half. It's been doing well on Google. Recently I gave my site a major overhaul with page layout redesigned, 100's of new pages added and site link structure changed (I put 15 or so keyword rich text links to the most important pages at the bottom of each page). In one word, it is almost a whole new site.
Google fresh bot came crawl my site and ranked it no.1 or 2 for most of my target keywords. I know it's not real rankings but what I haven't anticipated is that after a week my listings dissapeared from serp for most of the keywords while the rest of them brought up the old version of pages. The ranking for my no.1 keyphrase - it's a highly competitive one and actually is what my site is all about - didn't change and the title and description are also the same old version.
I don't know if it's a typical fresh crawl - Google Dance thing or that some of the techniques I used to optimize my site was considered as spam that might have triggered Google's spam policy to punish my site. Anyone has experienced the same thing, please help to clarify.
Thanks.
while the rest of them brought up the old version of pages
Sounds to me like your new work has not yet been deep-crawled, and that the reason it showed up was because of the freshbot listings, which typically get dropped after a few days.
However, it also sounds like while you had a freshbot listing, the results were good, which means that results following the next deepcrawl should be good.
So, hard as it may be, you'll probably have to wait a month to see your new pages cached and appearing "permanently" in the SERPs.
Keep working on your site, and hang in there...
Jim
