When does this dance end? I search on a key word (or word pair) and a site that was on page 1 position 7 goes to page 3 position 21 then back again 3 or 4 times a day. This morning I searched on a two word key phrase and it was in position 8 on page one, clicked search a second time for same phrase and it moved to position 10, clicked it again and back to position 8 Please don't tell me its something on the site changing every few hours and G reacting to it, as that is clearly not the case. The algo has changed and I think these fluid changes may be here to stay.
i think this is an isolated case to you. This doesnt happen normally and i've never ever seen it happening as quick as what you're saying. Have you checked your PC for trojan results manipulators, for example.
it's not going to stay like this. whenever an update is in progress a lot of the terms jump around a lot. the terms will go back to a stable positioning after the next update.
Normally I tell people that, SERPs changes all the time, but for 2 days, I also see lot of SERPs changes for my sites. The changes are too many.
I've seen this happen a few times for a term i'm ranking pretty highly on-- but primarily when i first began to rank for that term. I started out in the number 2 spot on the first page for a pretty nice term, but google attached a date to it in the SERPs. As the article aged over the next few days, G pushed it down in relevancy. Next thing you know, its back up to the number 2 spot a week later, and the date has been removed...
Yeh something major is still going on. One of our sites has been bouncing from Page 2... to Page 1 two/three times a day. This is NOT normal fluctuations and is down to Google, all google dance tools have been down since this started Feb 24th and Googles test indexes are both down and have been since this started Feb 24th www2.google.com and www3.google.com. I have no idea whats going on but it's been Two weeks.
This won't end as google always change their algo. And one more reason why your rankings won't stay on your targeted ranking is because of your competitors.
what are you talking about?... please unless you have advanced SEO knowledge, you won't understand these changes.
It's not here to stay. I've been noticing that the serps have been changing at an accelerated rate but this is no doubt due to an update. It will be over soon and until it ends there is really no sure way to know where any site will end up.
Seems to be affecting my main keywords only, jumping from page 1 to page 2, seems like I am ranking well in the nightime in the UK and then back to page 2 during the day. The positions are the same each time. I thought it was just different datacenters at first but it seems thats not the case.
Thanks everyone (well almost everyone) for confirming that you are having similar issues, at least I know I am not the only one dealing with this insanity.
I don't understand your reply. I started this thread to tell people that SERPs were changing hourly and a bunch of people confirm this and you make a comment like that? Why are you here? I am telling you what is going on RIGHT NOW based on data and observations, What is your "thought" based on? EDIT: Never mind I just looked at all your posts for the last two months, for some reason all you do is make one line stupid remarks or questions. Welcome to my IGNORE list!
My serps have stayed somewhat the same, I drop or gain a rank every few weeks. I siwtch between 4/5. They have been consistent since the end of November. Do you have a Google Webmaster account, because in July-November I got one. I just fixed all the errors, clean out the links. Fixed all the meta tags. And it gradually went to those top rankings. I cant get higher as the sites above me have way more quality backlinks. And I check hourly on some days, other days I have classes all day(Monday & Tuesday)
Have been seeing a lot bouncing up and down in the SERP's for most of my websites, I agree some thing BIG is going on as it's been more than 10 days since those SERP's started to dance and i really have NO idea why it's jumping!! Analyzed my backlinks which seems to remain the same and have changes nothing on my websites as well.
Sometimes when I refresh my browser my site changes rankings eg my site goes from pos 3 to pos 11 then back to pos 3 after each refresh. Or even page 1 to page 3 then back to page 1, then page 2 then back again. Basically theyre all over the place Now my sites not ranking for anything due to God knows what so Im getting no traffic at all, not too bothered as I was only making $1000 month but its a bit annoying all these jumps when your site is ranking.