I have been observing a strange behaviour in the serps for a site I manage. It began coming out of the sandbox at about the time Big Daddy hit. It has never ranked well in G. But for the past two days on 64.233.179.104 I have been seeing it get top ten rankings in searches that show returns of 1.5 million to 5.8 million. That is pretty big returns in this sector.
The thing that puzzles me is that with BD I saw a lot of my backlinks get prn/a and deindexed. A lot of them were for articles I had written and a lot were from dmoz clones. Some were from real directories and a few from reciprocal listings. No paid listings here. Very, very few one-way links and those are low ranking as are the real directories. No paid Yahoo listing.
My point is with all the devalued links, why is G doing a peek-a-boo bump up with the site? It doesn't last for a long time but when it does I get hits. So I know when it is happening.
Now, this site sells widgets. It is very plain that it sells widgets. And it carries articles about widgets and has product pages about widgets. This is NOT an affiliate site but a website for a brick and mortar business.
Am I seeing an early peek at "applied semantics" in action? Because I can find no other reason for this site to suddenly leap frog over the competition. This site seems to have suffered badly at the hands of BD with supplementals and deindexing of pages. Any one else experiencing this?
