I was really excited to see my site go from N/A to 141. But then, two days later, it went down by 9,900 and is again N/A. I'm guessing that with rarely used keywords (welsh pony), one hit can make all the difference. But it's frustrating to come from obscurity and then suddenly slip back. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do? I've advanced 9,000 with several other search terms, and remain ranked in the top 100 for them. Could my slippage be due to the fact that I went to Google and clicked on my own site? Does it know when I do that? Another issue: my bitter rival continues to hold the #2 spot for the keywords I need -- despite having a poorly constructed site with bad meta tags, relevance and oversaturated keyword density. Will I eventually overtake them? Thanks, Bob
All that means is API hit a data center that does not have you indexed. Even old sites drop like that when Google shuffles results.
So if I just sit tight, the ranking will bounce back? And what does the Pages in URL column mean? My site is listed as having 1 page (although the actual site has 20 linked to the index page) while my competitor has 417 pages. Is this the number of pages linked back to the site? I really wish this tool had a help index in addition to an FAQ.
The pages in URL returns the number of pages Google had listed as non-supplemental, at the time of the last pagerank update (which I believe was sometime in April.) That metric only updates at the same time pagerank updates so you may now have more pages indexed than it shows. Check your results manually. Are any of them supplemental. If so API does not return those.
Yahoo does this to me on an almost hourly basis...but it may be different in my case because I just check that keyword again and it has its high ranking again. I am very annoyed with Yahoo .