last night i was checking some of my high-ranking searches -as usual i was at #1 - #3 ... a few minutes later when doing the exact same searches my pages had dropped at least 10 spots... 5 minutes later, and I was back at number 1 (probably hitting differnet DCs).. ..This morning i notice less traffic so i check the rankings again, and now, they are consistantly ranking below #10 .. i havnt had a drop like this in over a year so it's a bit surprising.. anyone else seeing any movement like this - up or down? (the guy taking all my #1 spots must be happy )
It happens everyday with me. Check this keyword technology Update 3-4 times in a day and you will find my blog up and down. This happens with many sites. Just use this keyword ping blog and see the results 4-5 times in a day, all results will be some what different.
Same here. I'm going up and down like a jojo. funny how, for many of my good keywords, at 1st position there is a pr3 site that came out of nowhere and outranked a super famous pr7 site who gets 12 millions u/v a month. Something is just not right on G at the moment
Yes it happened to me too....My quality site was overtaken for a while by yahoo answer....but now its back to the top!!
There have been several other posts about sudden drops.. i think this is more than just the normal 'ups and downs' ..
My site has vanished for a #3 I've had for six months. I can't find my sites in any of the searches AWSTATS shows me for, it must be a major movement with constant fluctuations. Hope it all comes out okay.
Based on the rankings of my keywords, I can see it is not a major movement. They have the so called "Google everflux "and minor data transport in their data centers which can cause plus or minus 5 movement in SERP's. A movement greater can this,signifies a major data center update, popularly known as Google dance, which they put one data center down to be uploaded with updated algo, and then restart again..then another data center..so on and so forth. An drastic event in all keywords signifies a major google update., though the rankings of my keywords are still the same, I conclude this is their usual daily update or tweaks.
after about 24 hours most of my rankings returned to normal (#1, #2, #3).. it's just odd because for the last year or two all of my rankings have been rock solid. i' guess i've been lucky to not be prone to the 'everflux' and googledancing until now..
I guess it's not just my sites then! In the morning I am number 4 on Google for my main keywords then in the afternoon I slip to number 8 - it happens everyday the same - weird!!