How Long does The Google Dance Last?

In my experience it really depends on age and backlinks - so it's really hard to determine until further down the road. Granted, you can still "dance" even when you are on a page for weeks.

jared

The google dance used to last a couple of days. Now it takes minutes at most. Seeing fluctuating rankings these would NOT be what was commonly referred to as the "dance" in the past, which hasn't taken place in at least 2-3 years.

If you have a decent site, a dance typically lasts 1 week.

It really depends. Some sites stabilize quickly while others can remain in fluctuation for months.

The google dance lasts longer for newer sites, so just be patient and keep building quality anchor text links!

Unlike in the past where it happened at the end of the month, the "dance" is happening continuously across the Internet but the effect on your individual site can vary. Younger sites bounce around more than older sites and will settle down within 30 days unless you are continuously doing massive SEO activity.

It's going to last forever

seriously. Your SE rankings are not set by your site alone but by every other page that has any relevance to the same keyword you have.

As other sites dance, it will effect your site. As your site dances around, it effects all of the others.

(effect... or affect... I can never keep them straight)

While it is possible to reach a somewhat stable position the truth of that matter is SE rankings are always fluid and depending on the competition or popularity of your keyword you could bounce around forever.

Just focus on keeping your bouncing and dancing to the first page. Everything else is in the hands of the almighty google.

Lol ok, I keep slipping down even though I've been doing SEO this week, hopefully I'll start working my way UP soon.

Now I'm on page 20, I thought I was supposed to bounce back up! lol.

Alright because my site just keeps slipping down, down, down at a steady rate... which seems very odd. I'll just keep building my links for a few weeks then let it lie and see what happens

What I've done so far is submit to 9 high pr directories by hand, 200 through software, make 5 web 2.0 properties, submit to free traffic system for blog dripping, social bookmark the site to 20 high PR sites, and build 50 profile links from paul's packets.

I guess I'm most concerned about the "doing it well" part. As in, are spun articles good enough for building links from my web 2.0 properties or is that even helping me? That sort of thing.

One more thing to note, when starting out with a new website, make sure to be deep linking to keyword relevant pages. Don't just go all out to your homepage.

It usually takes me about 2 months to finally settle down on page one. Just keep your link velocity consistent for about a month and make sure to maintain link building after you have settled down on the first page.

Like others have said, it lasts forever. What's really weird is for my sites, I dance to, say, page 24, then back to page 2, then in a few weeks back to 24 or 25, then in a few days or a week, back to page 2, and it just keeps going. The site in my sig just danced out of the top 20 and I'm not going to do anything for a few weeks to see if it comes back to page 3, because when I post backlinks and such in response to this dance I can't be sure if it comes back on its own or if it was the backlinks. But almost all of my sites do this, its really unnerving.

Edit: if you click my site, please don't click the adsense. I only have one adsense across all my blogs and don't want to mess it up. But you probably already know all this, so never mind.

Take heart everybody...

My site and my main sales page are deindexed from Google. and is not to be seen from 12th of Jan. Only trying to console myself that it's Google dancing and everything will be alright soon.

no visitors and no sales since then. just keeping fingers crossed not knowing whether to continue link building or adding content to site or article marketing or...

To my experience, it can be few months. Just remember, your site will be changing everyday or every week as you try to tweak your content, create backlinks and so forth. At this time, big G is not sure where to position the site.

The Google dance, huh? as long as the African Vocals are singing!

The dance has no set length. Anyone that says otherwise doesn't know what they are talking about plain and simple. You have to realize, you're trying to rank a site, and other people are. Google is trying to see where everyone for that keyword fits best. You always have other people coming in and trying to get ranked, and Google is always trying to see where people fit.

Now, generally, the dance lasts about 1-3 months; you can be stable for a week or two and then suddenly start dancing around - that's actually the norm, not an exception, regardless of what people tell you. During that time, Google is simply trying to figure out what your value is, what the traffic you bring is worth, compared to the other sites.

You also have competitors trying to rank for the same keyword, and that makes things really goofy.

Don't worry about the dance, just do your thing, and make sure you do it for more than three months or so, and outrun the competitors over the long run, rather than worrying about the existing competition. Remember, the existing sites aren't necessarily staying static, so your goal should be to blow past them, not just barely edge them out.

The dance often lasts until you get more good quality links.

for me its sometime 2-3 weeks, make som backlink and then see it will rank high again

when you site have less link then site dances in search engine . Do more backlinks to make you ranking stable