Perhaps someone can shed some more light on this situation... I have about 20 pages that "disappear" for about 3-5 days and then re-appear in the same position they were at when they disappeared. For example, a page that's in position #4 will get pushed all the way back to #100, and then after 3-5 days it will re-appear in position #4 as if nothing happened. Why does this happen? Thanks!
Seems to be recurring frequently with google for the last month and a half that I've kept track when I actually started to notice it. Good traffic - Bad traffic... for a few pages anyhow
I suspected it was the Google Dance, but wasn't 100% sure. One thing that still puzzles me though, is why some of my pages/sites never seem to shift out of their current positions during the dance?
AT OP, did you get less visitors these low positioning days? If there were no canges, do not care. This is normal SE dance.
When these pages shift, I receive no visitors at all (due to their low position). Each of these pages rank well for a wide range of keyword phrases/combinations, yet - no Google traffic for any of them. Kaptain Kangaroo, do your affected pages receive any Google traffic during the Dance?
I rank #3 for a competative term. Sometimes, it vanishes completely for about a week, and then it returns. It has been doing the same thing for months now. I have tons of links with this anchor text, so it's not a cse of losing a link or two. This problem only happens for one search term, the other keywords I target all appear in more or less the same position.
My case is even more dramatic First, my highest PageRanked page on the site (according to Google's own webmaster tools) is simply gone from the index. It is not in supplementals or anywhere else it is simply gone with no cache. Sinse it is gone from the index it is not in the serps and since it is a root page for a site sub-section all the pages of that subsection are in a way orphaned. This personal incompetence does not bother google much as it gladly shows links (from high-ranked and highly relevant EDU, GOV and MIL pages) to that missing page when link: is used as well as proudly displays PR5 for a missing page (even though I have higher PR pages google maintains that this PR5 is the highest PR page on my site) on the toolbar. It also routinely looses my hi-PR internal pages when a new naturally occuering high-PR link to a specific page occurs. My partner and I now have sort of dark humor moment when we first meet in the morning as to "what section of the site will we loose today?" After about a month the pages suddenly found in the index again and rank in the serps within the top 3 for very competitive terms... and that way over-and-over-and-over again. Every time we get a good link in.
Six of my major keywords which bring 80% of my traffic (10,000 uniques/day) were at between no.1 and no.5 two hours ago. Now they are nowhere to be found. This has me worried.I,ve been in the same position from these keyword for 3 months. Anything I can do/check etc? Thanks Edit: I have just tried another which was climbing nicely and that has dissapeared too.My whole domain seems to be vanishing before my eyes!!!!!!!!!! Other keywords going too.
Actually, one page jumps from 4 to 1 and because that term shows up for a one word search (by google's doing) when in number 1-3 position, the traffic soars. Other pages are similar results 2-3, 3-6. Never drop off the first page, but this happens over and over again like other's sites lately and it is an established site so it has nothing to do with NSS - "new site syndrome". I'm just curious as to why it started happening now?