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Did anyone's ranking drop over the 4th of July weekend?

by Keep Trying
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I noticed that my website dropped from page 2, result 9 to page 3, result 5, or basically from rank #19 to #25 in the SERPs. Did anyone else experience something similar this weekend?
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  • Profile picture of the author nicheblogs
    My site actually gained 4 places. I did lose some ground on other secondary keywords though. Was there any new update done by google this weekend?.
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  • Profile picture of the author mervyngoh
    Luckily for me, it still stay at the first 3
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  • Profile picture of the author HorseStall
    It is likely just a generic Google dance, the search results will likely settle out, and not be drastically different.
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Rankings? No. Traffic? Yes. But that's to be expected this weekend.

    What you're probably experiencing is the typical Google dance.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keep Trying
      Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

      Rankings? No. Traffic? Yes. But that's to be expected this weekend.

      What you're probably experiencing is the typical Google dance.
      Thank you.
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    • Profile picture of the author chukcha
      Originally Posted by JSProjects View Post

      Rankings? No. Traffic? Yes. But that's to be expected this weekend.
      Why is it expected????
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      • Profile picture of the author xxmarkxx
        Originally Posted by chukcha View Post

        Why is it expected????
        He probably meant less traffic over the holidays. People are busy doing things other than being online.
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        • Profile picture of the author chukcha
          Originally Posted by xxmarkxx View Post

          He probably meant less traffic over the holidays. People are busy doing things other than being online.
          I see that makes sense.
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          • Profile picture of the author ceecee12
            I don't know anything about that but I do know they made some changes such as taking out the WonderWheel which I really liked.

            Also, I notice several new things on their site also.
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  • Profile picture of the author xxmarkxx
    Yes! I went from page 1 result 3 Down to page 2 result 9! Not pleased at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author chukcha
    Originally Posted by Keep Trying View Post

    I noticed that my website dropped from page 2, result 9 to page 3, result 5, or basically from rank #19 to #25 in the SERPs. Did anyone else experience something similar this weekend?
    Same thing mate. I was doing fine and then google did the usual. From page one last position to page 3 top position and now it seats page 3 bottom.
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  • Profile picture of the author xxmarkxx
    I'm pretty much a newb. Is there anyway to help minimize the impact of the "google dance" on your site? Does having more quality backlinks help at all or it it pretty much fair game for everyone?
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    • Profile picture of the author chukcha
      Originally Posted by xxmarkxx View Post

      I'm pretty much a newb. Is there anyway to help minimize the impact of the "google dance" on your site? Does having more quality backlinks help at all or it it pretty much fair game for everyone?
      If only I knew answer to that one. =)

      My site is about 4-5 month old and has Page Rank 1 unique content, seo optimized and I'm doing a lot of article marketing and pinging my backlinks, so far I see it's been effective but I would not say very effective. I already have more back links that my competitor and very consistent in building my back links, I will continue on doing that and see if in 3 month situation improves. I do not think there is an easy way to this unless you have no competition.
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  • Profile picture of the author KevinMc
    Originally Posted by Keep Trying View Post

    I noticed that my website dropped from page 2, result 9 to page 3, result 5, or basically from rank #19 to #25 in the SERPs. Did anyone else experience something similar this weekend?
    I got my butt kicked! I had quite a few very well ranked pages (lots of them were in the top 5 results for the keyword) ... some are completely off the charts while the rest are page 3.4,5+
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