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Explaining this See-Saw Effect

[janejanejane]

I have a PR5 site that shows up one day very well for major keywords, then drops off the map, then shows up very well, then drops off the map...

This has been going on for a month (or so).

Also, the tool bar is PR5, then gray, then PR 5 the next day, then white, then... and so on, ad nauseum.

Is this the new Google modus operandi?

(PS) When I read Googleguy's explanations and admonitions, I am at once reassured and try to be patient (but also reminded of the "damage control" generated my late e-commerce software company as its product disintegrated in public view)...

- Jane Jane

[DaveN]

Jane, had a site doing something very similar last update time, it as settled down. it's almost is if your site was dropped from one of the datacentres and as G switch's around you get this swap in swap out effect.

just wait a while.

Dave

[needinfo]

Jane,
Exact same here. Yesterday I was doing alright...today... nowhere!

[stevegpan2]

this is normal these days. if you have a fixed rank, it is not normal ;=--)))))

[jrokesmith]

You may want to check when the times that your site "drops off the map" to see if it is actually in the results for your keyword. Many people are experiencing something like this where their site appears to be downgraded in the rankings for a particular key word; sometimes 10 pages down in the results. It could be an algo change, a filter, or a glitch that google is trying to work out. Most people are leaning toward one of the first two.

[rfgdxm1]

To follow up on what jrokesmith wrote, when your site seems to vanish, check to see if that page shows up using a text string in quotes that is unique to your page as the search. You may be in the index, but buried.

[customdy]

Jane Jane, many of us are experiencing the exact same thing, usually the site does not completely disappear out of the index but is some where down 3-10 pages. However, for reasons yet TBD some sites are not experiencing this in-out-in-out-in-out-in-out
Try to hang in there until this things settles out and then you can decide where to go.. don't see much sense in trying to make changes now as know one knows the final results, except maybe Google. Of couse it never hurt to continue to add quality links and good content pages(well, hopefully not).

Hang tough

[mfishy]

I have a site that comes up #1 out of 2 million on a single term and then falls to #350 or so- depending on the datacenter and the time. Currently it is not showing on any datacenters, but is still #1 on AOL.

Another site dropped out on a bunch of terms yesterday and is back today, stronger than ever!

[DaveN]

oops double post.

dave