Spidering Popular Page Followed by 1-2 day Ranking Decrease

[doughayman]

Hi all,

I have a phenonomenon that has been going on for years with Google, and a website of mine.

I have a webpage on one of my sites that has a high PR and has ranked well in Google for many search terms for many years.

However, whenever this page gets spidered by Google (2 to 3 times per month), immediately after spidering the webpage loses its rankings severely for anywhere from 1-2 days, and then resurrects itself to its normal historical ranking state. This occurs, even if no changes to the webpage have occurred, and is consistent with it getting spidered from my site.

Obviously, this is a function of Google's process of spidering, ranking, and filtering, but isn't Google smart enough with its ranking algorithm, to not have to remove it (or decrease its ranking), during this process ?

Any thoughts on this ?

[tedster]

That is a very peculiar pattern, Doug. I've never seen anything like it - at least not over and over again.

[doughayman]

Yes, agreed. I have learned to live with it, as others have learned to live with the other various quirks and unexplained anomolies that get posted on this board.