I was wondering if anyone has any ideas why our listing for the keyword "chapel hill real estate" is bouncing around so much... the web site is: www.chapelhillrealty.com and we were on the home page for a few hours or half a day over the past month or two then we drop back to page four or so. its really strange. we show up on the home page, stay there for a half day tops, then back down again. in other words, about once a week or so, over the past two months, we show up front page, then back down... any ideas? doesnt seem like the updating of google servers would be the reason (google dance?). also, our webmaster account indicates we are moving up the rankings for that keyword.... dont know the correlation between the two.. thanks in advance. outofbounds
Many people have experienced the same. Google rankings are more dynamic than ever. If you watch the rankings you can see your website jump up and down in the rankings throughout the day. This is likely caused by Google displayed results from different data centers.
I've experienced this as well. Once it lasted a few weeks, but bounced back. It happened a few times actually. I learned to get over it and get on with other things as it's unhealthy to fret over such things.