Google Rankings anomaly

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Morning all,

Can anyone possibly answer a mystery for me?

One of my websites is centred around tumblestones. I was checking the Google search results (search word "tumblestones") to see how well the site was doing and on one day the search results came up as 80,000 competing pages approx. (This had been the approx number for weeks leading up to the launch of the site.)

On another day the competing pages came up as 565,000 but when I hit refresh it returned to 80000!!!!
This now happens regularly

Can anyone shed any light on what this means?

I look forward to your thoughts and thanks in advance

Jon
#competing pages #google #search results
  • Profile picture of the author Underground SEO
    Sorry not a clue why this happens, I've had it happen to me as well a couple of times though
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  • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
    The number that google provides is never accurate. It can vary depending on which data center you are hitting and the stage of any roll outs of new data at that center.
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