I wonder if anybody has encountered the following Google SERPs behavior: Once you start optimizing a website, it seems to dissapear from top SERPs. But once you stop gathering links, altering Meta info - SERPs are going higher and higher. I have never read of such a thing - can anybody who is aware comment?
hmm...it must be something wrong because I think when I optimizing my external links, my SERPs are always going higher
From what I understand, there is something wrong with your optimizations. probably you are using some black hat techniques( link exchange, link farms, poor quality incoming links, linking to unrelated and poor quality sites, spammy techniques like hidden text, small font and text at the footer and so on). or it could also be that you are being impatient. if you add a link today, it might take one week to up to a month for google to identify a link and increase your rank. By that time, you might have actually stopped doing optimizations!
I believe as long as you are constantly building links the natural way and not black hat strategies, all these links will always account for the SERPs. like what alemcherry is saying, as SEOs takes time to nurture, unless you have establish a link with those high-traffic websites, this link would be indexed very slow.
Are you facing this problem on a pretty new domain? It seems that new domains are more subjected to SERP fluctuation. In addition, it takes some time for Google to reflect the new changes you have done to your site (especially if your site is not crawled frequently). The effect of your recent SERP increases may due to your first action Keep building links for your targeted keywords and you will be fine in a long term.
i did not noticed any similar think but i can say that more links will keep you from the serp changes
People used to call the disappearance of a page from the SERPs "getting put in the sandbox". Search for Google sandbox and you will find lots of info on the subject. I believe you are right though, efforts which got your site sandboxed likely pay off 3 months down the road when you emerge from it.
I have seen this phenomenon too. Almost like Google is scaring the active SEO guys that they did something wrong to discourage them from trying to game the SE's. Interesting someone else noticed it.
If you optimize your site and lose a good position in the SERP, you are not doing it right. New domain sites tend to disappear from the SERP if you increase link popularity too fast.
Respectfully, I am doing it right. I have gotten in the top 10 in Goog for terms with over half a billion results. For some terms, if you have ANY SEO activity (i.e. 10 links over a month) it is possible to disappear completely for several days or drop a few pages from the top. It is scary if you don't know why it is happening. I can corroborate what SunnySide said. There definitely something in the algorithm to confuse SEO's.