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Why does ranking in Google suddenly collapse?

My site was ranking first in google and now suddenly it has dropped down

         

darshanaasodekar

5:50 am on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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My site was on number first yesterday when I searched for the keywords in Google.com.Today once again when I checked, I found that now my site is on number 8 in Google.com. I have not made any changes in my site still why did it drop down?

Timetraveler

7:36 am on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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You could be checking different datacenters or just normal google fluctuation. All sorts of things could be making it change.

darshanaasodekar

7:51 am on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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What do you mean by different datacentres? Yesterday in google search I searched for a keyword which showed my site on number one. Today when I am hitting same keyword in google search my site has fallen down to number 8.
I am not getting the reason behind this....

sem4u

9:01 am on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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How old is your site? New sites tend to fluctuate in their positions a lot. It could be any number of factors though.

darshanaasodekar

9:22 am on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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My site is a bit new. But Google has crawled my site for around 4 times after uploading. Time gap between two crawls is around 4 to 5 days.

sem4u

9:38 am on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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It all sounds pretty normal to me for a new site.

WiseWebDude

3:05 pm on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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It is very normal for a new site. I see that all the time with new sites.

HuskyPup

5:24 pm on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)



My site is a bit new.

Unless you've launched an all-singing, all-dancing authority site (even then it is not guaranteed) this is completely normal and will take several months to climb through the SERPs naturally, always assuming you've done a good job to start off with.

Timetraveler

6:54 pm on Jan 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

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New sites will usually rank high then get bumped down. Same for new pages on established sites. It's all normal.

Google has different datacenters which sometimes show different results. For example what you see at this datacenter [66.102.11.107...] (one of many) might be different than whatever datacenter you're currently hitting at google.com