Website dropping back and forth from #2 to #86 - penalty or Google Dance?
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2 weeks ago it suddenly dropped to #86 for about a week. Then it came back to #2 and stood there for 2 days. Then, for like 12 hours it went down again, and then came back.
But 4 days ago, it dropped again to #80-90 and stays there.
The website has around 10 pages with unique content and around 20 relevant backlinks that i exanged with sites in my niche. The site has no adsense, only a few affiliate links with a nofollow attribute - the links point to a php page with 301 redirects, the page is excluded from Google via robots.txt.
Prior to the drop in rankings i did nothing with the site or backlinking.
A few other similar sites are in the top 10 without drops.
Has my site a penalty or is this Google Dance? I really hate this.
Adsense no more ...