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If this is just a bit of everflux, I'll take it as a bonus, but if it sticks like this great! Did something happen ovenight, like PR was taken into account (we are 3rd ranked in our category on the directory).
Anyone else seen sudden movements today?
PS If this is really our new rankings and not just a strange blip, I'd like to thank everyone on this web site for a great job and thanks for all I've learned here. I don't think any of our competitors are using WebmasterWorld, and this is certainly working to our advantage!
Anyway, things like that do happen, and often they reverse pretty quick too. What happened to the pages which were listed above you?
A lot of the top ranked sites are old sites and they don't seem to change much. I think it's just that our relatively new site (uploaded in June 2002) is catching them up and overtaking them. The older sites belong to more established companies and I believe they take their positions for granted, get a bit complacent, and do little in the way of linking or SEO (that's legit SEO not spam). There are a few new sites from new companies who are beginning to steal their places now. Also, many of the top sites were designed by design companies, whereas we did ours on our own, so we have direct control over changes. If I notice a keyword we rank poorly for, I can make a title change or make a new page to try and improve our ranking.
Anyway, as i said, hope these results stick!
Thought I saw that pattern over several months, but as of lately with that drastic everflux going on that pattern seemed to be lost.
I think it looks like something new, so I wonder if anyone else has had a similar change...
Also, i'm seeing new results on www.google.com, and the old results on www2 and www3
Up until yesterday the top 10 results for one of our kw phrases had a PR6. Four of these sites are now PR5 and one is PR4.
Did you get a "Fresh tag" - a date stamp in your Google listing? This could be everflux, or maybe you just got freshed.
Jim
The page associated with the secondary keywords has had lots of content update, mostly in early January. That page also enjoyed a PR increase at the Superbowl update.
We also took position #3 with an internal page that never showed in the results before. (no freshdate on it either) I don't exactly remember who was ahead of us, but they seem to have dropped off page one entirely.
Our PR stayed at 6. Our main competitor went from 6 to 7.
Our site on the single most common keyword is now at #1 on Google. Our competitor moved from #4 to #55.
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Before yesterday, i was ranked first for a phrase, with my friend at #7
I still have #1, but also have an indented link underneath it ... and my friend jumped to #2
No fresh tag.
Only our site has moved. The other rankings are the same, only all those below us are now one place lower. They have not moved relative to one another at all. Only we have moved up. Possibly, my original theory holds here - some of these sites are not updated very often, whereas I'm always at it (oo-er). If their sites are staying the same, the won't move to much unless "the algo" (should be a movie title, that) changes big time.
Thanks for listening everyone. Basically just wanted to say Yippee we've got a good ranking!
Oh, and these new SERPS are also on Yahoo. Maybe this is also significant.
Goodnight and God bless Google.
