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Have you had pages removed or gone supplemental?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that what I'm seeing (probably on just a few dc's) will be permanent! When people say they're "slowly" getting out of G!'s sandbox does this mean that it's a gradual process that takes time rather than a sudden and completre release?
Yeah. it's kind of like blips on the horizon. Google let's you pop up high in the serps and watches the reaction of the surfers. If you get a lot of click thrus...that's bad but if you have stickiness...it becomes an elevator. All just theory.
understand about stickiness, but why is a lot of click thrus bad?
ps : forgot to add... i'm also seing a big jump in Yahoo! ATW, AV and MSN... coincidence? Mebbe I'm just paranoid after being nowhere in G! for so long and riding Y!'s yo-yo the past 2 months.... or could it be all that hard work finally paying off?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that what I'm seeing (probably on just a few dc's) will be permanent! When people say they're "slowly" getting out of G!'s sandbox does this mean that it's a gradual process that takes time rather than a sudden and completre release?It varies a lot, but your position in the serps should stabilize as the best evidence that your site is listed 'normally'. With 'new' stes, it's worth keeping a spreadsheet of your position against a selection of key words/phrases; as fluctuation decreases, so you can relax.
You say the content is 'dynamic' - this can add to your problems, as it's hard for Google to relax when it sees a different page each time it visits; and hard for you to interpret the serps, while key words come and go on the page.
It's fine to have part of your main page being dynamic, but SEO will probably be easier, long term, if you build in a good proportion of constant content to support it.
Usually worthwhile site are already doing well in Y and msn long before G.
I suppose you could say that... I've been in Y!'s & MSN's serps for some time now although I was bouncing around like crazy April & May.
But seriously, if you are getting a big jump across all se's then you should run linkdomain:mysite on yahoo and see if you got some real quality backlinks lately.
it's worth keeping a spreadsheet of your position against a selection of key words/phrases
You say the content is 'dynamic' - this can add to your problems, as it's hard for Google to relax when it sees a different page each time it visits; and hard for you to interpret the serps, while key words come and go on the page.
I update content 3 times a week. What do you think if instead of a random record at each load, I just display the latest record? Wouldn't that still be the same, except for the 2 day period between each update?
On the other hand, if most of your visitors are 'new' and brought by SEs, then you don't need a random page; they won't get the benefit, and anyway, the 'latest' is probably best to show to new visitors?
But if you add more to the front page - perhaps descriptions as well as section links, then the dynamic bit will be a smaller proportion of the page, and the change will not affect your listings as much, if at all.
Is this anything to worry about?
The only difference is that lately I've been more active in numerous forums (reputable) that allow users signature url. Could this make such a massive difference?
And give it time :)
Remember that the SERPS are relative, so any significant changes are unlikely to show until after a cycle of spidering; not after Google spiders just your site.
Again, no way to know. Google has it's own logic, and it will depend on how frequently your site gets spidered, how frequently your competitor sites get spidered, who Google considers to be relevant, who google considers to be an authority site, and probably 134 factors I don't know about.
Google is waaay too sophisticated to have anything standard and predictable.
You'll just hve to wait and see. Really ;)
Yeah I know... I was just fishing for mebbe some unknown nugget of wisdom from you very clever guys! I've been waiting for a year and to finally see my site moving is a thrill.
I add content every alternate day and G! spiders everyday. I submitted a Google Sitemap about 3 weeks ago that may have trigerred all this activity. I guess I got to remind myself.."down boy... downnnnn"
