All my subpages are jumping all over the place and my sites have plummeted rankings, I assume the dance is going on lol. Never been so nervous tom
I'm liking the google dance. I had a site move up to a top 5 position for a few days and send me 1000 more visits in one day. Hopefully it sticks there next SERP update.
Oh I'm all to familiar with the dance. I have 3 sites with sub pages that are on page 1 today, and on page 458 tomorrow, then back to 1 again. My the adsense charts for those sites look like the Himalaya's. Drives me nuts.
sometimes sites will get radically different search results because of -google changing algorythms -a competitive keyword where many people are making alot of changes and building links -penalties causing your site to drop in the rankings -your main page keeps changing size, google likes smaller pages
Even though I have been consistently building backlinks my traffic has been decreased due to the google dance.
If this were true, the majority of big corporations would be totally f^&$%d in Google's search results. I do, however, believe you meant to say 'your main page keeps changing content, Google likes fresh content'
- full moon - a cow is born in Salt Lake City - the number of the month plus the day equals 21 - Larry Page sneezed
I think you should pay attention to what your competition's ranking are doing in order to dtermine if the "dance" is localized to just your site, or if it is more globally affecting for your KW niche.
Yes, it's quite annoying to see the traffic fluctuating so much. Some of my sites got a nice peak of traffic while other are nowhere to be seen in Google.
Yeah i have noticed a lot of changes in the ranking for some of my websites and am sure they updating their index servers, so google dance is going on hope i will get better results soon.