What's going on, here?

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Experts, I have a new question!

My articlesbase article has been doing sort of well in the SERPs and I've been backlinking it to get it to the high SERPs.

After I got a backlink package from yousefgreat (well worth the money), I jumped up to page 2, then page 1. The back down to page 2 again.

It kept jumping between.

So, I backlinked it some more using a long list of social bookmarking sites.

It slowly moved up to rank 10, first page. Then the next day in the after noon, it fell back down to page 2, rank 15 (on my other browser it's 14).

What do you think the problem is? How would you fix it?

I've been building links again today, but I haven't gotten any results yet.
#behavior #google #strange
  • Profile picture of the author butters
    Originally Posted by havefunandlive View Post

    Experts, I have a new question!

    My articlesbase article has been doing sort of well in the SERPs and I've been backlinking it to get it to the high SERPs.

    After I got a backlink package from yousefgreat (well worth the money), I jumped up to page 2, then page 1. The back down to page 2 again.

    It kept jumping between.

    So, I backlinked it some more using a long list of social bookmarking sites.

    It slowly moved up to rank 10, first page. Then the next day in the after noon, it fell back down to page 2, rank 15 (on my other browser it's 14).

    What do you think the problem is? How would you fix it?

    I've been building links again today, but I haven't gotten any results yet.
    Google dance maybe, all go through it.
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    • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
      Originally Posted by butters View Post

      Google dance maybe, all go through it.
      I think it's a google dance, too. If I remember what the results were before correctly, then all of the results changed, not just my article.

      But if it's a google dance, I can expect my article to jump back to its position or higher in the next SERP update, right?

      But what if it's not a google dance? What else would it be?
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  • This always happen when you make new backlinks. Especially with new links, like articles, that aren´t indexed or in Google´s cache yet. It does not happen when you insert a backlink into a page that is already indexed.
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    • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
      Originally Posted by affiliated survivor View Post

      This always happen when you make new backlinks. Especially with new links, like articles, that aren´t indexed or in Google´s cache yet. It does not happen when you insert a backlink into a page that is already indexed.
      Oh, I see, so I'd be better off doing blog comments?

      Also, can I expect my page to jump back to page 1 (hopefully without jumping back down again this time) sometime in the next few days?
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  • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
    Oh, here's some more strange behavior.

    On Firefox and Internet Explorer get different results.

    Normally, I would say "they must be hitting different data centers", but right now my article is sitting on page 1, rank 7 on firefox and page 2, rank 13 on internet explorer. It's moved up on both, but here's the stranger part.

    When I use the multiple data center google search (Multiple Data Center Google Search - SEO Tools - Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization) I see results that are different from both of them. Every one of these datacenters have the same results to each other, but not to either internet explorer or firefox.

    I'm logged out on both.

    Are there more than the 35 data centers that my web browsers are seeing? Are my web browsers personalized, even though I'm logged out of google?

    EDIT: Alright, at this point, I've pretty much deduced that my firefox's google results are inaccurate. I got a plugin for firefox that tells me the ip address of a website, used it on google to show the ip of the data center I was seeing, typed that ip into internet explorer, and the results were very different, showing my true rank of 13.

    From now on, I'll exclusively use internet explorer to show my rank.
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