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I have a site which I recently started doing some SEO on. The SEO includes both on-page, and a link campaign. I started about two weeks ago.
Last week, the site was not in the top 1,000 for the prefered term. Yesterday the site was at #18 in the G serps, and this morning has jumped to #65.
The site has been around for about a month (give or take a few days).
Does anyone know if the drop in ranking has to do with the Sandbox theory or the Google Dance theory?
As you can imagine I have been watching my keywords very closely for the last 2 weeks nearly - the major thing I have noticed and would liek someone to explain is this.
For all the keywords I search the results flucuate each time I search. for example I will search in teh morning for KW1 - position 32 - at luch its position 45 then in the afternoon its postion 38. Why is this happening?
Can anyone explain this? Does anyone else see this?
Since the 6th of August my site has really dropped in google - My site has been up for over 2 years - over 3000 pages, alswyas gets indexed by google, new inbound and oubound links all the time, plus new content. My site now appears at least 30 places lower in the SERPS for all its searches.
I've got a similar situation- 12,000+ page site, 5+ years old, top 5 for 3 years or so, no 30-40 places dropped across the board.
However (as I've said in a couple other threads) this has happened a couple times before, and it has always (in the past) straightened itself out in 6-8 weeks or so.
The fluctuations you are seeing is the result of being served results form different datacenters.
>>I wonder if there is some randomisation in the algo has been implemented recently - since approx mid July. Maybe Goo thinks, Ok if the sites are more less quite similar for a particular keyword why not shuffle the results a bit every day - they are all bit the same anyway.... <<
What you have observed has been going on for months, and which I call "Rotating Algos". I wrote several posts about the same here [google.com]
Enjoy ;-)
[edited by: Woz at 9:50 am (utc) on Sep. 5, 2005]
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Around 21 July 2005 the SERPs began to make sense -- real sites started showing up. By 25 July 2005 the results were spectacular and improving.
Suddenly, around 13 August 2005 the fresh tags went away for those SERPs. Real sites began to vanish or drop in the results.
There have been no fresh tags and no cache updates in those pages from 13 August 2005 until today and as of right now, there are still no fresh tags and pages are showing which have been modified but not updated by googlebot.
A title change on one page which was made on 15 June 2005 is not reflected in the SERPs.
It seems peculiar for Google to revert to very old versions of pages and then freeze the results for weeks at a time considering that they care about freshness.
It is beginning to look like Inktomi spam.
Suddenly, around 13 August 2005 the fresh tags went away for those SERPs. Real sites began to vanish or drop in the results.There have been no fresh tags and no cache updates in those pages from 13 August 2005 until today and as of right now, there are still no fresh tags and pages are showing which have been modified but not updated by googlebot.
Excellent observation quotations. I'm in the same boat-- after stable SERPs for nearly 6 months, I experienced a drop for the majority of my terms.
The Google cache for my site is showing a cache date of August 12th, while all of my competitors have a cache date of August 20th. What is going on here? Any guesses as to when the cache will be updated and what is happening?
Thanks.
It does not look good from where I sit.
It looks like manual manipulation. They deny they do manual SERP manipulation but when you file a trademark infringement complaint things sure get fixed quickly and mysteriously.
It used to be when Google did planned updates that the results were good overall, with many sites lost temporarily as a downside. These days the planned updates do nothing but add garbage to the results, which then are culled out during the normal everflux process.
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[edited by: Iguana at 3:19 pm (utc) on Aug. 22, 2005]
But I'm still seeing hijackers of my pages topping me in SERPS :(
(I don't believe that high PR gets around this as proposed by Google. My PR is much higher than any of the hijackers. If these new results are the best they can do they have certainly not solved the 302 issues)
[edited by: oddsod at 3:28 pm (utc) on Aug. 22, 2005]