Having been in the top 5 on the first page on Google for a main keyword for over a year, there are periods when the rankings for that keyword are inverted. The sites within the top 5 gets ranked at the bottom 5 while the bottom 5 are ranked in the top 5. It happened again just last week and now I'm at 10 when I'm normally hovering between 4 and 5. Is this just another dance or is it something more serious in regards to Google's algo changes? Thank for any insight in this matter.
maybe other people doing active link building and seo to out rank you maybe? and they may be getting sandboxes etc..
I don't know about that. The flip in rankings is occurring on other sites above me as well (except for the site ranking number 1 due to the fact that the main keyword is the domain name as well). It's definitely something else. I don't know if this is the result of a Google filter occurring or just some shuffling going on. I guess all I can really do is keep link building, but when you see drastic changes in the SERPs like this you often wonder why.