Hey everyone, Here's a bit about my site first: 20,400 pages indexed Links in google: 59 PR4 2-4k uniques daily I'm curious about a pattern I've noticed with my SERPS in Google. They seem to change every 2 weeks or so and it's been happening for a few months. First, my index page ranks highly for very competitive terms, and Google also ranks some of my other pages highly for their appropriate keywords. Also, the other results I see are less spammy than usual. Then when 2 weeks pass, Google switches to spam-filled results that contain many descriptions saying things like, "this account has been banned" - so why is it there? It must be quite old.. ALSO in the 2nd 2 weeks, Google moves my homepage ranking down by 1 page every several days or so. Plus, they remove all my other pages from the index and my homepage ranks for their terms instead, even when my homepage is irrelevant to that term. So, I am frustrated by it because not only are the results irrelevant for everyone searching, but they affect my sales, etc. Has anyone else noticed a similar pattern? After the 2nd 2 weeks are up I generally get returned to my rightful places, and the cycle repeats itself.
that stuff happed to me but I had a brand new domain at the time so I just attributed it to the sandbox
Google will not manually drop your rank. It's completely the function of their algorithm. Maybe that's the reason your competitors do better than you, or you are losing your backlinks.