Hi, over the last two weeks my website has moved (for it's main keyword) from it's initial ranking on page 16, right up to page 4. Yesterday this ranking when right back down to page 13 in one day ! Over the two weeks I have been active with the following.... Released 2 artciles Released 1 press release Built many backlinks via article comments Webmaster tools now reports that I have 261 backlinks which has been steadily growing over the two weeks. Has anyone got an idea of what went wrong here? I thought it was movnig in the right direction until yesterday Thanks in advance....
It's the Google dance. Something like this usually happens until things settle down. Check again in a few days and you'll probably find it is back to where it was before.
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Be patient. Google is dancing more often in last one month. Their new algo is being tested right now.
Thanks for your valued responses..... it can be a little demorolising when you see it dropping all that way in one day. It has stabalised at pg 13 so will be patient as suggested. Assume there's no reason to stop building inbound link etc ?
It's happened to a lot of us, it's the google algo change, they don't do it too often. I wouldn't necessarily expect your rankings back as Matt's already said these changes aint no dance!
Yeah, I experienced this too. Page 1 to Page 6 for a certain keyword. Oh well, Google does what it wants.
Thought I'd update this thread with some news.... I'm hoping that Moneymap is correct... ! Today I have a Pg2 listing..... So from Pg16 => Pg4 => Pg13 => Pg2...... A right old dance....! Lets hope its stays or gets even better..... Thanks for all your comments.