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Unexplainably odd SERPS phenomena

Discussion in 'Google' started by Will.Spencer, May 19, 2004.

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    For the last few weeks I've been running a "Check All" on the Digital Point Keyword Tracker on one of my web sites with just over a hundred keywords in the morning and in the evening.

    Odlly enough... my SERPS seem to be down in the morning and up in the evening on a very regular basis.

    It causes me to wonder if perhaps Google massages the SERPS one way over night and massages the SERPS another way during the day, perhaps to make the best use of limited server/cpu/memory/database resources.

    I have no explanations, just this odd observation.
     
    Will.Spencer, May 19, 2004 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    It's not just you... I see it too. But I don't have any explanation either.
     
    digitalpoint, May 19, 2004 IP
  3. hexed

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    So you're the guy who's making the server run really slow ;).. few hundred? :p


    Shawn's going to have to upgrade the server to a 4 cpu xeon soon :p

    Hexed
     
    hexed, May 19, 2004 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Hehehe... server isn't anywhere remotely close to being overloaded. It could probably handle 250,000 users (it just broke 10,000). :)
     
    digitalpoint, May 19, 2004 IP
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    hexed Peon

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    Good stuff Shawn. Sometimes the server goes ..real.. slow though. I'm not sure if it's just my connection because I've never pinged.

    Usually my cable connection is pretty good and doesn't drop many packets or have high latency though.

    Hexed
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    It seems like sometimes Google is throttling API requests.
     
    digitalpoint, May 19, 2004 IP
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    hexed Peon

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    I was looking at my SERPs thinking, yeah, he's right.. they are going down this morning. Then i was thinking, well, it's prime time in Europe right now.. i wonder if their SERPs are rising?

    Does it make sense that america's SERPs would fall as the Europians would rise during their prime time? And vise-versa in the night for us and the morning for them.

    I term this, the Hexed Effect.

    hexed
     
    hexed, May 20, 2004 IP
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    FYI FWIW: Recently, I think (!) I've noticed a similar behavior overnight (I'm on Mountain USA time - GMT-7). I have an automated check-all early in the morning ... and the last few days, I've seen a lotta RED ... so I figure, allright, Google clobbered me. But then just for grins, I click on a few of the keywords to get updates (during the day), and they "bounce-back" to values more similar to what I'm used to ... but then the process repeats itself the next day.

    It is a little wierd, and I emphasize the "think" above since there is a normal rumble and I believe there is a pattern - I wouldn't even had brought up if others had not mentioned.

    Guess I rank better on Google during daytime USA hours?!? ;-)

    alek
     
    hulkster, May 21, 2004 IP
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    I love the terming hexed. lol. Ive noticed the same fall and rise phenomonononon- ill quit.
     
    schlottke, May 21, 2004 IP
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    Exactly what I see! At approx 1am EST the results are usually down across the board. By about 4pm EST they're back up to "normal". And this happens every day without fail for the past 2 weeks that I've been noticing
     
    rickbender1940, May 22, 2004 IP
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    My experience has been that at the small hours of the morning, i often see SERP rises, sometimes so remarkable as to be shocking. A couple of weeks ago, one of my sites, normally about #30 for its keywords, was #7, and stayed that way for as long--that night--as I cared to look. Next morning, of course, poof. But I have seen smaller but significant rises at about the same hours many a time. (I'm in the Pacific Time Zone).
     
    Owlcroft, May 22, 2004 IP