Ouch! Site Rankings going a bit Crazy!

[thetruth23]

Oh dear...Google's on to me!

At the worst possible time, one of my seasonal sites has decided to jump down 10 pages for a bunch of my top keywords.

Sucks plenty because I was ranked on page 1 for 5 high volume keywords and doing quite nicely over the past 15 days.

Nevermind, it was always going to happen as I only created the site 3 weeks ago, even though rankings seemed pretty settled over the past 4 or 5 days.

Fingers crossed it jumps back up in time for a few more sales before the end of the Christmas rush.

I'm going to find a couple of related, high-pr blog to comment on to see if that quickens up the climb back to the top.

Does anyone have any other and/or better ideas?

I understand there's not much I can really do apart from wait however long, but I'm not too fussed as these things happen. Just wanted to know what others do or would do in this situation?

[Eager2SEO]

Originally Posted by thetruth23

Oh dear...Google's on to me!

At the worst possible time, one of my seasonal sites has decided to jump down 10 pages for a bunch of my top keywords.

Sucks plenty because I was ranked on page 1 for 5 high volume keywords and doing quite nicely over the past 15 days.

Nevermind, it was always going to happen as I only created the site 3 weeks ago, even though rankings seemed pretty settled over the past 4 or 5 days.

Fingers crossed it jumps back up in time for a few more sales before the end of the Christmas rush.

I'm going to find a couple of related, high-pr blog to comment on to see if that quickens up the climb back to the top.

Does anyone have any other and/or better ideas?

I understand there's not much I can really do apart from wait however long, but I'm not too fussed as these things happen. Just wanted to know what others do or would do in this situation?

Another site of mine bounced down to 700 for a week. Now it is back even stronger, it took over many EMDs for just my blog posts. It now ranks with the top dogs (in the top 5) for a few expensive items. My main keywords is now at position 10 (yes, its very competitive-$500+ items).

As a programmer (this is just an educated guess) it seems for google to move a site or do a major ranking update it has to do an insertion type sort where stuff temporarily gets pushed to the bottom of the array until it is repositioned. Think of manually arranging things on your desk, you may move your expensive laptop to a drawer for a while until everything is sorted out on the desk.

Some sites that were around mine are still at position 700.

[thetruth23]

Originally Posted by Eager2SEO

Another site of mine bounced down to 700 for a week. Now it is back even stronger, it took over many EMDs for just my blog posts. It now ranks with the top dogs (in the top 5) for a few expensive items. My main keywords is now at position 10 (yes, its very competitive-$500+ items).

As a programmer (this is just an educated guess) it seems for google to move a site or do a major ranking update it has to do an insertion type sort where stuff temporarily gets pushed to the bottom of the array until it is repositioned. Think of manually arranging things on your desk, you may move your expensive laptop to a drawer for a while until everything is sorted out on the desk.

Some sites that were around mine are still at position 700.

I'm totally going to interpret and consider my site as the shiny and expensive new laptop that Google is waiting to a find a nice clean spot for, and have its pride of place at number 1!

Thanks for your reply!

Btw, I've decieded the first call of action is to add another page of unique and valuable content to the website! It might please mr google bot!

[Eager2SEO]

Originally Posted by thetruth23

I'm totally going to interpret and consider my site as the shiny and expensive new laptop that Google is waiting to a find a nice clean spot for, and have its pride of place at number 1!

Thanks for your reply!

Btw, I've decieded the first call of action is to add another page of unique and valuable content to the website! It might please mr google bot!

Yes, I was going to write that. The sites that are still sitting at position 700 have old content. I wrote two blog posts on hot items, maybe that was the reason that it sprung back.

[jhonsean]

Search engines normally updates and It will takes time to set the normal rankings in google. It is recommended that you should also enhance your site some fresher content.

[samcarson]

Yes adding as little as one post a week is enough to sustain existing rankings

[thetruth23]

Wow! It's honestly felt like an age, but it's been only TWO weeks, and my site is back up in the rankings for my targetted keywords. (for google.com at least - nowhere on .co.uk though)

I'm surprised how short the time was because it felt like ages, and even though I've missed out on the Xmas rush, it's nice to know the website didn't stay down for too long. I'm even ranking higher for a few keywords.

I just hope it lasts. =)

[FrankBowman]

Perfect example of what is meant by "the Google dance"

[thetruth23]

Originally Posted by FrankBowman

Perfect example of what is meant by "the Google dance"

Any idea when the dancing stops?

It's gone down the rankings again...

[sexymarieldon]

You should do the pinging every day. So that your site will increase its traffic.

[gekko2.0]

We have been dealing with the same thing one of our websites went from the front page with its main keywords to pages 20+

[Fernando Veloso]

Originally Posted by samcarson

Yes adding as little as one post a week is enough to sustain existing rankings

Not.

In competitive markets some of my sites are updated 3x per day or more.