wondering if anyone can give me an insight into the problem ive had last two days my website www.johnnysinajiffy.com ranks high for all major keywords condoms durex condoms durex cheap condoms etc condoms is our main keyword, with over 15.6 million websites listed for it in google.co.uk, we are bottom of page 1, which we are really happy with, we where at 1 point number 2 in google for this keyword but dropped to bottom of page 1, however last two days, sometimes when i do a search for the keyword condoms, my website is no where to be seen for that keyword, but still shows up for the other keywords, then it comes back again, why would this do this? i total panicked as I thought i had lost my listing totally?
It could be a new algorithm running over existing pages and comparing its relevance to other newer pages... and sampling visitor CTR and perceived relevance. In otherwords... Google are doing their regular "cause webmasters to panic" routine. I can only guess that you will not be the only webmaster experiencing this, you may just be the first person to notice and report it (that I have seen)... other people may already have reported similar things on other forums. Remember, Google tweak their algorithm regularly and sometimes it coincides with re-indexing their index. Every time a google bot retrieves a page from your site it has the opportunity to affect its serps ranking...
I have seen some of my important keywords shuffling between page 1 and 2 of the SERP but never disappear from the result.
very strange indeed, im not showing top page 2, but 3 times ive searched this week, i have been no where to be seen for the keyword condoms
Its most likely you are hitting different data centers when running those searches. Some DC's will have different results than others usually not by much but enough to make us think or sites are being dropped.
yeah I understand the fact of different DCs, but why would I be top page 2 on 1, and not even in the top 10 pages on another?
yes I see he same thing happening.. very interesting.. I hope the final result is good news for me...
Same thing here. Top search term is now gone while other smaller ones are still number one. Also, searching for the domain name does not bring my site in results. Cant be a penalty as i still rank very high for less competative phrases.
Im not sure if anyone noticed anything last night happening on google UK. But yet again around 11pm, my website rankings mainly our main one for "condoms" our website disapareed for this keyword and then came back again. On our SEO Elite software it showed last night that an update had taken place on the SERPS. I find it really strange how we can simply disapear and then come back again, any ideas? it didnt seem to affect our other keywords such as durex, cheap condoms, durex condoms etc