From pos 2 to page 3 over night

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Recently just acquired page 1 pos. 2 for my keyword Christmas day, now being one day later my rating dropped to page 3, almost page 4. Is this a result of a "Google dance" or could it have been a fluke that it landed there for such a short amount of time.
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  • Rankings constantly change based on 1000 different factors. The more you study it, the crazier you'll go. Just keep building links and aim for #1.
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    • Exactly. Epescially with a subject like Christmas. The "Google Dance" is what is happening. Keep building links, and you will get back to page 1
    • That is so true, just keep on tyin to get that #1 spot and dont worry to much, you will end up in a mental hospital
  • You had no anchor to hold the spot .

    Was it an article from a high page rank site?

    Getting to Google one can be done with no real effort . Staying there takes back links and other off page seo .
  • It could be QDF.

    QDF is when a new page shoots to the top for a short while then sinks down, it's Google's way of keeping their index "fresh".

    It doesn't happen on every keyword though, but if something is seasonal, newsworthy or otherwises current, I would place good money on it being QDF.
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    • Thanks for the quick replies, the website itself is a blog designed to sell an affiliate product. Got pretty excited when it hit 1 for a pretty competitive keyword, guess I'll just keep plugging away with the back links,
  • Build links. Be patient.

    It's probably a combination of the two in my experience. You sometimes get a huge bump when adding new content(or good links) and then fall back to where you probably should be. In order to not go crazy you've got to take a longer term view and chart progress over weeks and months instead of days and hours.

    Know your competition and you won't worry so much. Are they building links?
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    • I had a page that I built a year ago that would be on either page 1 or page 2 at different times of the day for awhile. Google is crazy.
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    From pos 2 to page 3 over night

    Recently just acquired page 1 pos. 2 for my keyword Christmas day, now being one day later my rating dropped to page 3, almost page 4. Is this a result of a "Google dance" or could it have been a fluke that it landed there for such a short amount of time.