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Google Dance - Share Your Experience!

by TBInternetMarketing
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Hi folks,
I've seen a number of posts recently where people have mentioned their sites used to rank on the first page of Google and have now vanished.

More often than not this is for a new site, and is a case of the Google Dance which is Google's algorithm trying to work out where your site belongs.

I thought it might be a cool idea to share your experience of the Google dance. What is the longest that your site has vanished off the radar for, only to return to page one?

For me it's about a month, but when it first happened it was a pretty long/nervous month for me. Luckily my site returned stronger than ever and I now know this is par for the course with new sites. I'm hoping that if others share their experiences it will ease the minds of a lot of newbies.

All the best
#dance #google #long #vanish
  • Profile picture of the author garyseo786
    well , for new sites i have seen this dance or something call sandbox for several times and it took a couple of week to months to comeback to normal rankings . but i had a recent issue with more than 1 year old site which suddenly got disappeared from google for its all keyword now i don't know how long it would take to come back . i can only hope to comeback with some solid backlinking work .
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    • Profile picture of the author InTheMaking
      TBI, just curious.. when you say "vanish" do you mean your site was sitting in the 100-400 mark?

      I'd just like to share something here.. The reason why many websites jump high in the search engines in the first few weeks is because of the new factor your site gives google. After the "honeymoon" stage your website will drop accordingly. (Correct me if I'm wrong, just sharing my experience)

      Most people see this drop and figure they were penalized, deindexed, sandboxed, etc. They figure they should let their website rest and it'll jump back up in the serps but thats not the case.

      When you achieve that high ranking make sure you maintain your backlinking and slowly increase it over time.

      I posted a few threads complaining how my websites all dropped from the #1 spot down to the 10th page and then slowly working it's way up only to realize it was my fault for stopping building backlinks when I needed to maintain building backlinks.

      I waited a whole month doing nothing before I took action.
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      • Profile picture of the author csm111
        Really, Google dance gives shocked to us everytime when it dances.Google mastering your site's keywords and phrases.Get a top ten ranking in Google's result for your keywords and you will have a successful site.My site have gone up from 30 to 8 rank.
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      • Profile picture of the author TBInternetMarketing
        Originally Posted by InTheMaking View Post

        TBI, just curious.. when you say "vanish" do you mean your site was sitting in the 100-400 mark?
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        Yea I mean that it is no longer visible without hunting for it way down on page 25 or something. I agree, there is definitely a honeymoon period that your site goes through and the key is to keep building links at a constant rate.
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        • Profile picture of the author rvdp
          Same sites, two different keywords. Wonder when rankings for second keyword will return...



          edit: oh and the line at 100 doesn't actually mean position 100, it's the limitation of the software. In reality, it's somewhere inbetween 500-700
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          • Profile picture of the author LAF Riot
            My niche site is currently in the throws of the Google slapdown as well! About a month ago (at that point the site was 3 months old) it ranked as high as 22 for its main keyword and then got hit hard.

            Now the site fluctuates between the mid 600s and 700s for its main keyword. I use Blog Blueprint as my main source of backlinks, but have varied it up with a small amount of forum profile backlinks, a web 2.0 link pyramid, blog comments form high PR sites, and a couple videos. What makes it more painful is that sites ranking well for my keyword don't look as professional as mine!
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  • Profile picture of the author Jimmy AL
    Well, my website was #9 on first page for about two weeks and now it got on #13 and #14 on page 2. I'm trying to do some effective backlinking and to index the forum profiles I have created (it's extremely hard to do this, I don't even know if I'm doing it right)!
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