Started a new website in late December last year. (In my Sig) I have been slowly building backlinks to it every day since about the middle of January. Up until 2 week ago I had been sitting fairly steadily on page 2 in google for the two main keywords that I am targeting. This past week I hit page 1 for both keywords. The strange thing is nearly everyday I am ranked on page one when I get to work in the morning. By ten O'clock I have normally dropped to page four somewhere. I stay there all day until about midnight when I pop up on page one again. This has happened every day for nearly a week now. Has anyone got any ideas on why this is happening.
it happens if you are not ranked the same across all google datacenters. google has several datacenters and based on which datacenter your search result is pulled form, your ranking may vary. looks like you did a good job on link building for your site so i would suggest you to keep doing what you are doing with your site promotion and over time, it will be just fine. your site is still pretty young so take a slow and steady approach on link building and watch your ranking climb higher....
Thanks for the quick reply. I am fairly new at all of this and I wasnt sure if I might have been doing to piss the almighty google off.
Ranking in the first couple of pages for a competitive term means you are doing the right things. It takes a while for a new site to settle down to a consistent placement. I suspect you will end up in the page 4 position until you add more links and tweak your on-page factors.
It happens with new sites so don't get upset dude, just keep concentrating on your work. you will get the result
It may possible while Google updates its data center which is known as Google Dance. You should also check the competitors' sites too. Google updates it's index and if it gets better (in relevant factors) than your site may have lower rank than the others'. So just keep optimizing your site.
There are different tools that can help you showing search engine results of different data centers while using same ip...
I would suggest increase your link building and update your content. as fast as you do it you will get your position back
i am not talking of tools but how can the results vary after every few hours and make the results page upside down i.e. how can different results be shown by switching between different data centers after every few hours???
It may be because of the data centers issue. But ranking in page 1 for a 2 month site is totally unbelievable for a competitive term like garden shed.
i agree with you that there are tools that can show you the results from different data centers. but Garden Shed has posted different question. he is not using any tool but still seeing different results at different time to which sultanofseo has replied that this is due to the results being shown from different data centers. so i want to ask that how can a person see results from different data centers at different points of time??? hope i am clear this time???
Aside from the flux that always happens on Google, there has been a definate shake up in the rankings these last few weeks. I can only assume they are testing new filters, or maybe it is to do with the big 'branding' changes. If you are getting 1st page results at all, you are obviously doing something right. Keep at it - don't let the consistancy drop & you should see it stabilize over the coming weeks/months.
Thanks for the replies everyone. Although there seems to be a few different trains of thought it seems I am heading in the right direction and will keep doing what I have been.
Hi, Firstly congrats on your results, obviously your hard work is paying off. Just keep doing what you're doing, follow all white hat techniques with major focus on quality 'relevant' backlinks and quality content on your site. With new sites, your sites tend to rank high, then they may drop rankings either becuase they've gone into the sandbox or because Google is decding where the site should be placed. Eventually your rankings will level off and all these rankings will stop dancing around, and it is down to the datacenters which one of the users mentioned above. Good luck Zaheer
Well the rankings fluctuations will be there when you are going to get the constant SERP position. short term and isolated ups/downs may be due to accessing different data centers; this does not adequately explain major cyclical variances. You are likely to hear no explanation from Google people - they simply do not comment on this particular topic (with very rare, vague and inadequate exceptions). You are likely to hear all sorts of explanations from NON-Google people and none of those that I have seen over the past two years are at all convincing. If you want to monitor it systematically, you need to lock on to specific data centers, rather than taking pot-luck with the usual google.com request. Sorry I cannot be more helpful than that.
There is nothing as constant as change. Google changed it's alogrithim 450 times last year, uses multiple datacenters, serves results based on IP, is using branding as a filter, time on site, etc. You should probably expect your site to move up and down consistently. Keep in mind that your site means little to Google, they index millions of sites and billions of pages. Your results are almost never the result of someone at Google taking an action, and nearly always the result of something on your site tripping some kind of filter... either positively or negatively. Like Stars in the Universe, too many to count.