Google Dance - Frequently Asked Questions

by Kappa
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I have a question. If I write a new article for my blog, and decide that I want to use backlinking on the inner page, does that usually cause the top level website to go through the "google dance" phenomenon?
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  • Profile picture of the author tjcocker
    I have not experienced this, no.

    All pages go through the dance at different times without warning.
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    • Profile picture of the author HCLee
      I can relate my experience which may answer your question. I have a niche site with about 4 pages. The main page was on #1 and the sub page was on Google page 2. I wanted to improve the SERP for my page 2 keyword so I did lots of backlinking. It turned out, the Google dance struck and both home page and sub page disappeared in Google. Both got the Google dance. They came back 3 weeks later only to disappear again 2 days later as I did further backlinking. I guess this happens for new sites.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kappa
        Thanks, oh, I still don't know what to do.. my gut says the entire blog will go through Google dance which I wanted to avoid, but my traffic has been pretty horrible anyway so we'll see...
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      • Profile picture of the author dburk
        Hi Kappa,

        The "Google Dance" is a term that refers to Google doing an algorithm update or a data refresh. It has nothing to do with what you are doing to your website, you have no control over it, there is nothing you can do to cause it or to prevent it. It's useful to be aware of it simply to prevent unnecessary worry or reaction.
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        • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
          Originally Posted by dburk View Post

          Hi Kappa,

          The "Google Dance" is a term that refers to Google doing an algorithm update or a data refresh. It has nothing to do with what you are doing to your website, you have no control over it, there is nothing you can do to cause it or to prevent it. It's useful to be aware of it simply to prevent unnecessary worry or reaction.
          From my own experience, Google dance happens when you don't build your link consistently...

          Is either Google see a spike of links in today, and the next day zero, it might trigger a dance! However, this doesn't mean it is a bad thing, because when your page is back, it will rank a lot higher than before - thanks to all kinds of authority backlinks!

          I had a rule myself, I don't do any on page optimization when my site ranking drop, because I did it few times my sites were filtered for a whole month!
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          • Profile picture of the author dburk
            Originally Posted by kkchoon View Post

            From my own experience, Google dance happens when you don't build your link consistently...

            Is either Google see a spike of links in today, and the next day zero, it might trigger a dance! However, this doesn't mean it is a bad thing, because when your page is back, it will rank a lot higher than before - thanks to all kinds of authority backlinks!

            I had a rule myself, I don't do any on page optimization when my site ranking drop, because I did it few times my sites were filtered for a whole month!
            Hi kkchoon,

            So you think that an individual webmaster creating backlinks for his website will trigger an algorithm update or datacenter data refresh? That seems highly unlikely. Google Dances happen, I just don't think they could be triggered by the actions of an individual webmaster, that boggles the mind to even consider it. That creates a visual in my mind of a quick response team of engineers standing by rewrite the algorithm every time I get a handful of backlinks. :rolleyes:

            A more likely explanation would be the normal effects of QDF or Trustrank factors that are sometimes referred to as the sandbox effect. New pages and backlinks haven't been around long enough to have earned trust so they don't rank high. If you're spamming links all over the place you will have most of them removed after a short period of time. That would have a significant negative effect on your rankings.

            Again, this activity is not going to trigger a major algorithm update or disrupt then regularly scheduled data refreshes. That just seems like a silly notion.
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            • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
              Originally Posted by dburk View Post

              Hi kkchoon,

              So you think that an individual webmaster creating backlinks for his website will trigger an algorithm update or datacenter data refresh? That seems highly unlikely. Google Dances happen, I just don't think they could be triggered by the actions of an individual webmaster, that boggles the mind to even consider it. That creates a visual in my mind of a quick response team of engineers standing by rewrite the algorithm every time I get a handful of backlinks. :rolleyes:
              Hey Don, Great to see you here again! We have some debate here...

              I don't think, I did experienced this -

              Whenever I build tons of backlinks to my site suddenly, say 400 backlinks at once! In few days, my site / page would drop many positions, although this is not always happening, but 7 / 10!

              If my site is well established, this don't happen with little links, I need thousands of links in a day to temporary dance my page.

              I am sure spike of backlinks would cause Google dance because the statistic speak for itself... this is from my own experience.

              That's why I ask other Warriors not to freak out because the page dropped!

              Originally Posted by dburk View Post

              A more likely explanation would be the normal effects of QDF or Trustrank factors that are sometimes referred to as the sandbox effect. New pages and backlinks haven't been around long enough to have earned trust so they don't rank high. If you're spamming links all over the place you will have most of them removed after a short period of time. That would have a significant negative effect on your rankings.

              Again, this activity is not going to trigger a major algorithm update or disrupt then regularly scheduled data refreshes. That just seems like a silly notion.
              Yes, I do admit trust rank does affect the ranking, because Google Dance mostly happen to new site, and most of the time during backlink building.

              For QDF, I don't think my site ranking would drop so much, and many of the keywords I've is not trendy type of keywords, I think QDF doesn't affect my site ranking much.

              I agree that using XRumer to gain tons of spam links, and got removed in short period of time would trigger Google Filter, it's call link velocity - the rate you gain links and lost it!

              It depends on how we do the "spam", if all links stay long, you won't trigger the filter, but still dancing around... because I did checked my links, they are there !

              I don't like the idea of mass spamming that don't stick, but I would do proper link building (A.K.A spam!) carefully...! More legitimate way of link building for me:

              1. Article
              2. Press Release
              3. Web Directory
              4. Link Bait page
              5. Video
              6. Podcast
              7. Proper forum / blog comments

              What I consider spammy link building:

              1. Bookmarking
              2. software directories
              3. One way profile backlinks
              4. General spam message on forum / blog

              There are gray area with using XRumer... If you find niche related forums, and post Q&A style of comments, you can greatly increase your stick rate and many forum owners will welcome you!

              Having said that, automated software still not as good as human work, but they save you a lot of time.

              Kok Choon
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              • Profile picture of the author sandeepkatwala
                I think Link Bait is in Spamming. What do you think?
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                  I think it depends on how you're doing it and what you mean by "link baiting..."
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              • Profile picture of the author Saifi Rizvi
                Originally Posted by kkchoon View Post

                Hey Don, Great to see you here again! We have some debate here...

                I don't think, I did experienced this -

                Whenever I build tons of backlinks to my site suddenly, say 400 backlinks at once! In few days, my site / page would drop many positions, although this is not always happening, but 7 / 10!

                If my site is well established, this don't happen with little links, I need thousands of links in a day to temporary dance my page.

                I am sure spike of backlinks would cause Google dance because the statistic speak for itself... this is from my own experience.

                That's why I ask other Warriors not to freak out because the page dropped!



                Yes, I do admit trust rank does affect the ranking, because Google Dance mostly happen to new site, and most of the time during backlink building.

                For QDF, I don't think my site ranking would drop so much, and many of the keywords I've is not trendy type of keywords, I think QDF doesn't affect my site ranking much.

                I agree that using XRumer to gain tons of spam links, and got removed in short period of time would trigger Google Filter, it's call link velocity - the rate you gain links and lost it!

                It depends on how we do the "spam", if all links stay long, you won't trigger the filter, but still dancing around... because I did checked my links, they are there !

                I don't like the idea of mass spamming that don't stick, but I would do proper link building (A.K.A spam!) carefully...! More legitimate way of link building for me:

                1. Article
                2. Press Release
                3. Web Directory
                4. Link Bait page
                5. Video
                6. Podcast
                7. Proper forum / blog comments

                What I consider spammy link building:

                1. Bookmarking
                2. software directories
                3. One way profile backlinks
                4. General spam message on forum / blog

                There are gray area with using XRumer... If you find niche related forums, and post Q&A style of comments, you can greatly increase your stick rate and many forum owners will welcome you!

                Having said that, automated software still not as good as human work, but they save you a lot of time.

                Kok Choon
                Well totally agree with the reply after the google updates you have to careful while creating backlinks for the pages. You should be aware of creating backlinks of which pages . If you are creating backlinks for single page then it should be considered as a spam. After latest updates it should be equally distributed as compared to all others backlinks.
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            • Profile picture of the author marc05
              I to agree google isn't updating it's alg. but instead just automatically recalculating placement in the serps for the site. This usually only happens when I ping a bunch of links instead of letting google find them on its own.

              Originally Posted by dburk View Post

              Hi kkchoon,

              So you think that an individual webmaster creating backlinks for his website will trigger an algorithm update or datacenter data refresh? That seems highly unlikely. Google Dances happen, I just don't think they could be triggered by the actions of an individual webmaster, that boggles the mind to even consider it. That creates a visual in my mind of a quick response team of engineers standing by rewrite the algorithm every time I get a handful of backlinks. :rolleyes:

              A more likely explanation would be the normal effects of QDF or Trustrank factors that are sometimes referred to as the sandbox effect. New pages and backlinks haven't been around long enough to have earned trust so they don't rank high. If you're spamming links all over the place you will have most of them removed after a short period of time. That would have a significant negative effect on your rankings.

              Again, this activity is not going to trigger a major algorithm update or disrupt then regularly scheduled data refreshes. That just seems like a silly notion.
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              • Profile picture of the author analsaha
                never gone through this problem , at different time you have to face it, its just a google doing a algorithm update, and updating data centers.
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            • Profile picture of the author premiumseoservice
              Originally Posted by dburk View Post

              Hi kkchoon,

              So you think that an individual webmaster creating backlinks for his website will trigger an algorithm update or datacenter data refresh? That seems highly unlikely. Google Dances happen, I just don't think they could be triggered by the actions of an individual webmaster, that boggles the mind to even consider it. That creates a visual in my mind of a quick response team of engineers standing by rewrite the algorithm every time I get a handful of backlinks. :rolleyes:

              A more likely explanation would be the normal effects of QDF or Trustrank factors that are sometimes referred to as the sandbox effect. New pages and backlinks haven't been around long enough to have earned trust so they don't rank high. If you're spamming links all over the place you will have most of them removed after a short period of time. That would have a significant negative effect on your rankings.

              Again, this activity is not going to trigger a major algorithm update or disrupt then regularly scheduled data refreshes. That just seems like a silly notion.
              One of the main reasons for google dance is changing the metatitle of a site that is already ranked... yoou will dissapear from serps for a while.
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          • Profile picture of the author chrisjchrisj
            Originally Posted by kkchoon View Post

            I had a rule myself, I don't do any on page optimization when my site ranking drop, because I did it few times my sites were filtered for a whole month!
            Does this include not changing the meta description?
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        • Profile picture of the author salmansafder
          Thanks for the post..
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        • Profile picture of the author waysmeans
          Originally Posted by dburk View Post

          Hi Kappa,

          The "Google Dance" is a term that refers to Google doing an algorithm update or a data refresh. It has nothing to do with what you are doing to your website, you have no control over it, there is nothing you can do to cause it or to prevent it. It's useful to be aware of it simply to prevent unnecessary worry or reaction.
          As I know, Google dance effects on keyword position. It mean, your site is on 1st page with a particular keyword and suddenly it got out of 100 or not in search. It is google dance. It may take upto 10 days back keyword position again.
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        • Profile picture of the author marpfi
          Hi there I disagree with that I think you can force a google dance by doing something wrong, for example t much backlinks in a short time of period or even a high bounce rate can end up in a google dance, your site will then rank anywhere where nobody goes and usually after a time it comes back
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      • Profile picture of the author srigrace
        yep, that's right whether google get's the page while it need some of the organic traffic, some cheap links & blogs for the page, it will be cached, may be the result is different but google filtering algorithm will occurs.
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      • Profile picture of the author angelinawillium
        I think this happen for every site...Google Dance - Google check for every site..their backlinks and all and according to that they work for..
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  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    It's been a month that I am monitoring one of my sites ranking while continuously building links and I can't really figure out why this is happening..

    My site's ranking are:

    12th
    92 after 3 days
    back to 45 after 3 days
    103 after 4 days
    37 after 3 days
    9 after 4 days
    75 after 3 days
    18 after 3 days
    82 after 3 days

    the highest is 6 and after 3 days it's back again to 46
    so on and so forth...

    any recommendation to make it steady at least to a higher position is highly appreciated...

    Thanks,
    adie
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    • Profile picture of the author Gary Gomez
      Its simply dancing because you have been "continuously building links"

      It will settle out eventually but keep the same link velocity up as you are doing now else it will look suspicious.

      A google dance can take 3 or 4 months to settle out so dont worry just yet.
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      • Originally Posted by Gary Gomez View Post

        Its simply dancing because you have been "continuously building links"

        It will settle out eventually but keep the same link velocity up as you are doing now else it will look suspicious.

        A google dance can take 3 or 4 months to settle out so dont worry just yet.
        I agree. Just keep on building backlinks. Consistency is key.
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        • Profile picture of the author trizzypballr
          Originally Posted by rebelz View Post

          what really is google dance..pls tell me
          Pretty much I take it as googles servers evaluating your backlinks, attempting to figure out where you truely belong. For the most part you only see it happen after you get new backlinks, or google released an algo update.
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        • Profile picture of the author jimmytangl
          If we continue to build backlinks, do we need it from related site or any high PR site?
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      • Profile picture of the author drewmcntyre
        Originally Posted by Gary Gomez View Post

        Its simply dancing because you have been "continuously building links"

        It will settle out eventually but keep the same link velocity up as you are doing now else it will look suspicious.

        A google dance can take 3 or 4 months to settle out so dont worry just yet.
        Really thanks for telling your good views about Google dancing because I am facing the same problem.
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        • Profile picture of the author jessicadavid
          Well there are so many examples of Google dancing that happened to me. Sometimes these are happier ones and most of the times these are breath taking. But we have to stick to these as we have to obey a drunk master "Google" who can do anything any time.
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      • Profile picture of the author onegoodman
        Originally Posted by Gary Gomez View Post

        Its simply dancing because you have been "continuously building links"

        It will settle out eventually but keep the same link velocity up as you are doing now else it will look suspicious.

        A google dance can take 3 or 4 months to settle out so dont worry just yet.
        ouch that hurts.

        I am having the same issue with one of my keywords (most of them are stable) but on of them keep jumping up and down.
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      • Profile picture of the author BlueGalt
        Originally Posted by Gary Gomez View Post

        Its simply dancing because you have been "continuously building links"

        It will settle out eventually but keep the same link velocity up as you are doing now else it will look suspicious.

        A google dance can take 3 or 4 months to settle out so dont worry just yet.
        I'm a bit of a beginner at SEO and your post kind of resonated with me.

        I've been building links to a site of mine that has been established for awhile but have been "mixing" up the velocity and types of links to make it appear more natural.

        If I understand what is being written in this thread, the key is to continue the same rate of linkbuilding from week to week?

        I've been experiencing the Google Dance from the 1st page to the 3rd page of Google within the last couple of weeks but I expected that.

        I would be curious to know when you stop building links to a given URL and when the site will settle in to its rankings.

        Anyone?
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        • Profile picture of the author WeExist
          So how do you know if your site is dancing with Google or if it has been penalised? My site was on page 1 - position 10, now it is on page 28...
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        • Profile picture of the author trizzypballr
          Originally Posted by DavidTiger View Post

          Warm thanks for information.
          But would you tell me how can we maintain our website on first rank without any fluctuation in page rank.
          I am on first page from two month but now i went to 3rd page in Google search. Would you help me? what can i do to come back on first page?
          As your site ages it will become more consistent. Really to know what you need to do to grab the #1 spot, can only be answered by looking at your competition. Even then no one can give you a concrete answer. Its all trial and error. From what im reading though, it seems that link velocity is becoming bigger and bigger. Meaning you cant just order a bunch of backlinks and then let it sit. You should be getting a few backlinks for your site every day, to make things look natural. Its going more the way of looking natural with every google update
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    • Profile picture of the author affilorama-portal
      This is a common occurrence when sites are relatively new. You'll see it ranking highly for awhile then drop away for a few months then go up again. Google is re-evaluating your site to see if it should remain in their index and what keywords it should rank for.

      Just make sure your site is properly optimized. Keep building quality backlinks and add good content to your site regularly to provide a positive experience to your visitors.
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      • Profile picture of the author Adie
        Originally Posted by affilorama-portal View Post

        This is a common occurrence when sites are relatively new. You'll see it ranking highly for awhile then drop away for a few months then go up again. Google is re-evaluating your site to see if it should remain in their index and what keywords it should rank for.

        Just make sure your site is properly optimized. Keep building quality backlinks and add good content to your site regularly to provide a positive experience to your visitors.
        My site is not new and was on 3 to 5 spots before google panda was implemented. I've done a major changes on the site to get along with the current google climate and this is the thing I noticed....
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    • Profile picture of the author aygabtu
      Doing my periodic checks for keywords for one of my sites, and found several terms dropped like a rock while others went up. Examples:

      Drop from 87 to 257
      Drop from 212 to 374

      Up from 71 to 50
      Up from 33 to 29 :p

      All these moves were from yesterday to today. The key difference is the ones that had the big drops were new terms on my site from mid/late last week. The ones that went up were established terms from several weeks ago.

      Clearly google still loves to dance.
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      • Profile picture of the author down
        Absolutely yes, and it could happen at any time.
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        • Profile picture of the author adam886
          Originally Posted by down View Post

          Absolutely yes, and it could happen at any time.
          Even I agree to him and finally got the result with google dance and now have a query in mind that what is DNS?
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      • Profile picture of the author HimanshuS
        Originally Posted by aygabtu View Post

        Doing my periodic checks for keywords for one of my sites, and found several terms dropped like a rock while others went up. Examples:

        Drop from 87 to 257
        Drop from 212 to 374

        Up from 71 to 50
        Up from 33 to 29 :p

        All these moves were from yesterday to today. The key difference is the ones that had the big drops were new terms on my site from mid/late last week. The ones that went up were established terms from several weeks ago.

        Clearly google still loves to dance.
        You obviously spend a lot of time in checking your rank. This is going to waste a lot of time. I think, it's better to use that time for building fresh content and internal linking. Give some time and the dancing is going to stop. You can't rule out occasional shift in position. That's because your competitors are doing SEO too.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lukas
      Wow your site is NOT new? We should send Dexter over there then. It could be some kind of penalty those j&rks never tell you about. I see loss of traffic on a great site that is 10 yrs old too.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daedalus
      I've pulled out a few websites from the Panda cage for a friend.

      I would focus mainly on on-page SEO. Try to properly optimize it, but don't overdo it. Design a good internal linking structure, keep your keyword density around 2% and definitely edit your content to get rid of spelling errors and ''clumsy'' looking sentences. And last but not least, log in your Webmaster Tools and check if your site is being properly crawled etc.

      When it comes to off-page SEO, start building quality links. By that I don't mean becoming an editor for CNN and sneaking in links to your site, I mainly mean PR1-PR4 portfolio with a couple of PR5+ links, along with some PR1+ nofollows. Do it steadily and be patient. You can RSS and ping some of them, but I suggest you leave the most for Google to find. If they are good, they will be found sooner or later

      If you use any blasting tools that give you 100k PR N/A links, kill them with fire. Good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ettienne
      Something I've noticed is that quite often when you go on a backlink-building spree your rankings might drop at first as the backlinks are being indexed, almost like the new backlinks are "confusing" Google. It can take a few days or even a month or so before they start moving up.

      One example: I had a keyword ranked in #26 on Google, did a helluva lot of backlinks for that specific keyword over the course of a week, then my site dropped to #42 few days later. 2-3 days after that it went to #241 and the following day it was GONE (#500+).

      BUT, 6 days after my site disappeared, it suddenly came back and was in #9, higher than it ever was. Nobody knows for sure how it works, but the key is to be patient and consistent with your backlinks as mentioned above.
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      • Profile picture of the author IMSince2003
        Originally Posted by Ettienne View Post

        Something I've noticed is that quite often when you go on a backlink-building spree your rankings might drop at first as the backlinks are being indexed, almost like the new backlinks are "confusing" Google. It can take a few days or even a month or so before they start moving up.

        One example: I had a keyword ranked in #26 on Google, did a helluva lot of backlinks for that specific keyword over the course of a week, then my site dropped to #42 few days later. 2-3 days after that it went to #241 and the following day it was GONE (#500+).

        BUT, 6 days after my site disappeared, it suddenly came back and was in #9, higher than it ever was. Nobody knows for sure how it works, but the key is to be patient and consistent with your backlinks as mentioned above.
        My experience mirrors this also. After a link campaign, I've had sites completely disappear from the se results!
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    • Profile picture of the author Hossain
      Dont be worried. Its Google dance and we face it each time we start link building campaign.

      To stop or reduce dance:-
      Build some high PR (URL PR), relevant and dofollow backlinks. You will be fine.
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    • Profile picture of the author rafiseo
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      Yes Hussain is quite right. Also you can blast some xrumer and senuke blasts to tier 1 backlinks. This will help you too.
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      • Profile picture of the author hossainsrj
        Originally Posted by forest l View Post

        Google Dance is something that needs time to settle down. Remember one thing that you must continue with the link building process as stopping can let search engine to think you are a spammer.
        You mean the link velocity! Yeah its very important, even for the google Sandbox, we should continue the natural backlinks creation, when it'll return it'll achieve more strong position hopefully.

        As lots of people are trying to dominate google ranking and optimization process becoming very complex. Google really doing some fun with the webmasters. But don't worry, keep continue your good work, it might take some time to resolve the issues.
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    • Profile picture of the author RutledgeGroup
      I've had sites completely disappear from Google for a little while, but then when they come back, they come back stronger.
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    • Profile picture of the author commoditytrainer
      To see sites go back and forth like that has to be throwing up a lot of backlinks with software and when you do that some of the backlinks stay and some are dropped out of the link graph which will cause a dance in Google, which why would want to build the links gradually over a period of time. I notice it all the time when I change my links to a different keyword, I know that the keyword will fall back for a period of time, but I keep building links naturally and then the keyword jumps back to where it was, then I use every method to maintain stability of the keyword in the top positions.
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    • Don't worry It's always happens when google is dancing..so keep continue your work you will get again SERP.
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    • Profile picture of the author hitslikeYou
      Dont be worried. Personally, i am also facing that type of google dance problem.
      keep your Link building at a continue way. you will Get better result very soon.
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    • Profile picture of the author David Sneen
      So, ... what we need to remember is, keep the faith and keep at it. Let Google dance, but don't let your blood pressure dance with it!

      Yeah, I have seen some pretty strange gyrations myself.
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    • Profile picture of the author Robby54
      Yep a few of my sites are going through this now... Its truly frustrating.
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        • Profile picture of the author aygabtu
          Check rankings for several keywords last night and was pleasantly surprised they are still marching up, but did a spot check this morning and those same keywords fell below where they were a week ago!

          Why google why!?!?
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    • Profile picture of the author samfinance
      it just because og google dancing, make your quality back links .
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    • Profile picture of the author howimakemony
      My website rank always fluctuates in its rank ...so frustrating
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    • Profile picture of the author davisdavin27
      Don't hate Google dance. Its not a penalty at all..
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    • Profile picture of the author seohacker
      Google dance is temporary. If your on page optimization is well done and you are continuously trying to improve your offsite optimization by building quality links, your rankings should dance a lot less.
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    • Profile picture of the author cerified
      it's all about relative from Google dance if your site is new it will ranking highly for a while and drop again shortly because Google re-evaluate for your site see if remain index and what keyword should rank

      so try to optimize your site properly and generate high authorized back links.
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    • Profile picture of the author myshow
      It could take some time while the result stabilizes.
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      • Profile picture of the author aygabtu
        So tired of this. Was ranked 14 for a key term 2 days ago, now 55th??? Dropped like a rock on many other terms too! I've been link building, pinging, adding/updating content, etc and terms have not recovered from their massive drops. Do I just need to be more patient?
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    • Profile picture of the author chrislangley
      You can only do what you are currently doing, and hope it stabilises, some have had good results by simply scaling up their backlinks if it gets too low
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    • Profile picture of the author jalicia18
      My site was gone for almost 1 month and thought that it was sandbox. Now, it's back and thought that it's just google dance. The come back of its ranking is now on first page, better than before. They're right, just continue building links and it will relocate to its exact position soon.
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      • Profile picture of the author usaimarketing
        @Adie
        Same is the case with one of my website in opposite direction because many keywords of my website have been dramatically improved in search engine rankings of Google.com. After little research, we have decided to review our link building strategy. Now we are focusing on long tail anchor texts to use them in back linking of our website on most relevant pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author amherstsowell
      Do Only White Hat Activity and do all activity not only one. your site will be stable on best position of SERP page after google dancing. google Dancing is an activity its start when Google search engine are being implemented on their algo. don't worry keep it up
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        • Profile picture of the author AshleyScott
          What I have noticed in the past seven months is that at first, Google dance is noticed at the end of every month then every week and then for a particular period at which we were now exactly.
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        • Profile picture of the author aviexpert
          Google dance is temporary. Its not a issue at all.. It could take some time while the result stabilizes.
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          • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
            Originally Posted by aviexpert View Post

            Google dance is temporary. Its not a issue at all.. It could take some time while the result stabilizes.
            Well... it is an issue for webmasters while it's happening to their site and effecting their traffic
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        • Profile picture of the author gustoking
          Is a 2 step dance? lol
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        • Profile picture of the author Apoorv82
          Google dance is just a cause of Algorithm of Google.Its for spamming link.If you create spamming link or low quality work then It will definitely do dancing.Keyword rank would be differ by time to time
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        • Profile picture of the author andydxgame
          A Google dance is simply when Google decide to update their algorithm. It usually happens once a week, usually on Monday i've noticed. This happens to all sites, new and old.
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        • Profile picture of the author Sanket Patel
          The term " Google Dance" is always describe the major update of the Google Search Engine which are regular implemented. I think this updates occurs a 36 days and 10 times per year. I would say that these all changes will be evident one minute to the next. Apart from it it also took several days to finish the complete update to the index.
          So, if you are finding ranking through Google dance then it happens with new material of site. This is because Google's bot or spider is always running and finding may have detected the several results which you need to be deleted through index pages. During the Dance , Google bot always revisit everywhere. So, I would suggest that you just figure out how many sites links you have also back linking about your inner pages and how valuable these all links are to be in your website.
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        • Profile picture of the author andirn1
          Originally Posted by manadong View Post

          i hate google dance, my site from 2nd to 101 and other site mush n to sandbox jail
          someone please fell me how i find what my site ranking numbers are
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        • Profile picture of the author john8954
          Originally Posted by manadong View Post

          i hate google dance, my site from 2nd to 101 and other site mush n to sandbox jail
          Me too, i also hate Google dance because my keywords has reached from 1 to 146 why?
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          • Profile picture of the author LogoDesignExpert
            Originally Posted by john8954 View Post

            Me too, i also hate Google dance because my keywords has reached from 1 to 146 why?
            My keywords did an Olympic long jump from 10th position to 120th, I hope this thing settle downs soon. The Irony is after jan -17 update ( unconfirmed) you see lesser known sites have made it to the first page in rankings, sites that don't deserve to be there, Some of them i doubt don't even have good backlinks to claim that top spot on Google.
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      • Profile picture of the author ramanpradhan42
        I have no idea about this question and please share some more information on this topic, as it is a very interesting topic to discuss.
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      • Profile picture of the author lindaschilberg
        Google dance is a term which refer update in algorithm of Google which implement on whole website instead of particular so you should implement all changes on your website which will help to improve your website ranking.
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      • Profile picture of the author vitun
        The "Google Dance" is a term that refers to Google doing an algorithm update or a data refresh. It has nothing to do with what you are doing to your website, you have no control over it, there is nothing you can do to cause it or to prevent it. It's useful to be aware of it simply to prevent unnecessary worry or reaction.
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      • Profile picture of the author usaimarketing
        Google dance occur when Google for uncertain changes in their algorithm, or make new updates that really affect the previous work. There is no control on Google dance.
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      • Profile picture of the author puneetkgarg
        The "Google Dance" is a term that refers to Google doing an algorithm update or a data refresh. It has nothing to do with what you are doing to your website, you have no control over it, there is nothing you can do to cause it or to prevent it. It's useful to be aware of it simply to prevent unnecessary worry or reaction.
        The ranks of the site can vary if you do not work properly on related keywords.
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      • Profile picture of the author awirku
        it might be worthwhile to get a backlink you need to set a schedule, you can use a scheduled weekly, monthly.
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      • Profile picture of the author naeemzia
        Majority of my keywords drop the SERP after the Google dancing what can i do now to bring back my keywords.
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      • Profile picture of the author gladiolus
        The name "Google Dance" is often used to describe the index update of the Google search engine. Google's index update occurs on average once per month. It can be identified by significant movement in search results and especially by Google's cache of all indexed pages reflecting the status of Google's last spidering..
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      • Profile picture of the author sofiaelan
        dont worry about these things..
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      • Profile picture of the author puja2sharma
        Google dance is the refer to ranking in Google search result.Google have the many major server and each server have different rank of your site. main server take the average ranking of your site and give the final result when your search. difference between ranking on different server is called Google Dance.
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        • Profile picture of the author longdouble
          Originally Posted by puja2sharma View Post

          Google dance is the refer to ranking in Google search result.Google have the many major server and each server have different rank of your site. main server take the average ranking of your site and give the final result when your search. difference between ranking on different server is called Google Dance.
          How do we track the exact rank of our website from on server. :confused:
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      • Profile picture of the author lisamoss
        Hi! This is really a new concept for me. Thanks for sharing. Does it affect PR of the website?
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      • Profile picture of the author banner123
        Google dance is a update in algorithm which performed by Google it doesn't belong to your question if Google do any update in the algorithm you need to implement on website.
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      • Profile picture of the author dawida
        well.....as my point of view,
        The name "Google Dance" has often been used to describe the index update of the Google search engine. Google's index update occurred on average once per month....
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      • Profile picture of the author Raji
        i don't know any idea about google dance
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      • Profile picture of the author michaelrox27
        Google dance usually happens for temporarily period of time and at that time you can see drop down and ups in your rankings.
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      • Profile picture of the author banner123
        Google dance is a update in algorithm it's happens time to time but you can generate back links by blog to internal page
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        • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
          Originally Posted by banner123 View Post

          Google dance is a update in algorithm it's happens time to time but you can generate back links by blog to internal page
          Google dance isn't an update in the algorithm itself, just in rankings for that website.
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      • Profile picture of the author waysmeans
        Google dance often effect on keyword position, but no need of worry more about this. If position lost due to google dance, it will get back in 5-10 days.
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      • Profile picture of the author rajivwebads
        Generally Google dance is a term related to the fluctuation in the page ranks of a site while the google updates its system. the period of the fluctuation is known as Google dance.
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      • Profile picture of the author DeenaForiya
        Originally Posted by manadong View Post

        i hate google dance, my site from 2nd to 101 and other site mush n to sandbox jail
        Originally Posted by canadaimmigration View Post

        There could be one reason which is Panda Update. Google dance also happens even when Google updates it's data center. Don't worry about it. It will take some time to settle down. You just keep going on.
        hi will you tell me what you mean by google datacenter...i never hear before this term..
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    • Profile picture of the author boafinancial
      How long does it take to recover from google dance?

      I have a one and a half year old site and 7 of my keywords ranking in google search engine have decreased by an average of 50 positions.

      Does scroogle give accurate serp?
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      • Profile picture of the author biggcapp
        I have a few sites that dance but they completely disappear. They go to about position 750 (not kidding). There are no set time limits either. Two of them are ranking for spot 1 and earn a decent amount everyday.

        When I don't sell anything for the day - I know it's Google dancing. It's super annoying. I was able to stop one site by adding a lot of content and inner linking to the pages created. I'm not sure if that stopped it, or if it was coincidence but it stopped.

        I use Page rank Checker: top 1000 Page Ranking: Search Engine Results Pages | SERPs Position Checker to check my position.

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        • Profile picture of the author boafinancial
          Thanks, I used page rank checker and my serp for my home page after entering 2 keywords was #2 ranking in google. What does a #2 ranking in serp mean? Please, explain to me as I am a newbie to seo.
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          • Profile picture of the author fortony
            It means your site will be the second listing on Google for searches of that keyword phrase, for the region you are number 2 in, if I am understanding your question properly.

            I would advise not getting too hung up on how you rank for individual keyword phases. A lot of traffic will come from keyword combinations you never even thought of. Work on getting good content with keywords onto your site.
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      • Profile picture of the author seomac
        hi
        one can not predict the proper time, just keep building the good backlinks an update content, soon you get stable rank.
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      • Profile picture of the author FokusNow
        Continue adding quality content and growing your backlinks for the site.

        As stated, there is no way to actually figure out the time that your site will jump back up. But if you just let it sit and don't continue working on your seo, your chances of getting back to the top are very slim.

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      • Profile picture of the author addyj672
        Originally Posted by boafinancial View Post

        How long does it take to recover from google dance?

        I have a one and a half year old site and 7 of my keywords ranking in google search engine have decreased by an average of 50 positions.

        Does scroogle give accurate serp?
        Are you confirm this is google dance or decrees in ranking of keywords. In google dance keywords ranking change every now and then. Means constantly change with time.

        If it is google dance then stop link building for 2 to 3 days and after this time period your keywords will retain their position.
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        • Profile picture of the author komplex
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          Are you confirm this is google dance or decrees in ranking of keywords. In google dance keywords ranking change every now and then. Means constantly change with time.

          If it is google dance then stop link building for 2 to 3 days and after this time period your keywords will retain their position.
          Good advice. When you starting dancing, stop building links for a few days.. This is important! After you rank, keep building but slow down a bit.
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      • Profile picture of the author Coffeeconsumer
        I find that focussing on fewer but more high quality links reduces the liklihood of Google dance. I have had sites endure the dance from 1 week to 8 months.
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      • Profile picture of the author SeoMonster1
        Don't get bother or freak to know your current position with checking it all the time. Let it be on it's way. Just stick with your plan and do quality work.
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    • Profile picture of the author deyong
      i have same experience after get many backlink from my dummy blog. :-(
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    • Profile picture of the author Yulia from DNP
      As you can see it happens all the time to everyone especially 8if the site is new.
      What you need to do, is to relax, and do your work
      The process is natural and it will continue till it stabilize. Do what you would be doing if it wasn't happening, gaining good pr back links .
      It will help Google to understand where to put your site in Serp's
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    • Profile picture of the author amherstsowell
      Its Very Good hotboy18 Same thing i saw in may site after every google dancing, my site also up everytime. Mr manadong and showkatahmad i don't know why this happen with you guys checkout you all activity and do only white hat techniques, you will also get improvement after every time when google dance.
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    • Profile picture of the author Johnabrahamsp
      I had the same problem. My site ranking continued to fluctuate from 70th to 81st and then from 81st to 42nd. One day it is not in hundred. Later the ranking was on 20th. Seriously I learnt that if ranking changes several times, it means Google is searching a place to put our site in a stable position. Now my rank is in 2nd page for more than a week. I need to build some more links to reach first page.
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    • Profile picture of the author Linerider
      Been there done that and got the T-shirt. One of my websites went from page 1 on Google to page 16, then back to page 1 again after a couple of weeks. I discovered that my link building campaign was causing it. Google appeared to be temporarily penalising me for it. I changed my link building campaign to create fewer links per day, and only creating backlinks from high PR websites. Since I have been doing this, my site ranking has stayed on page one.
      The other thing is how are you finding out what your rank is in Google? If you watch one of Matt Cutts' videos he says that you will get penalised for using rank checking software as it uses a lot of server resources.
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    • Profile picture of the author cdh
      What is the best way to check your site position?
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      • Profile picture of the author homebizoutlook
        Originally Posted by cdh View Post

        What is the best way to check your site position?
        Market Samurai rank tracker function is my favorite.
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    • Profile picture of the author Maunchand
      But how to build quality links?
      What I follow is
      1. Directory submission
      2. Article Posting
      3. Forum posting
      4. Social Bookmarking
      Besides what are the things to do to build quality links?
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    • Profile picture of the author Maunchand
      Google Dance is no more. Or rather, it has become less important because Google performs update every Monday. Hopefully everyone have seen rankings get changed or improved on Monday.
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      • Profile picture of the author westportclan
        My site is still dancing like mad. It drops out of the SERPS completely for a few days then returns, usually in a higher position for a few days, before dropping out again. This has been going on for around a month now! Madness. I just continue with the link building as before...
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    • Profile picture of the author delboy2010
      In my experience, I have found that Google dances are always a good thing, if one of my sites keywords jumps 10's of places around at a time or even dissapears for a few days the end result is always a good high position, I usually find this happens when the site is newly backinked and that the dances become smaller and smaller the higher the ranking is.
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    • Profile picture of the author delboy2010
      To check your position I always use Rank Checker, perfect for checking progress as well
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    • Profile picture of the author myiphoneapp
      i also face this type of problem, but keep building quality link building on good website. article submission, social bookmarking and forum posting is good way for improving keywords ranking.

      thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author seo-expert
      I only have one target keyword that is not ranking well... it's been like this for several months now...
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      • Profile picture of the author DeskCoder
        Originally Posted by seo-expert View Post

        I only have one target keyword that is not ranking well... it's been like this for several months now...
        Don't tell me that ... I need mine to come back quick.
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    • Profile picture of the author solado
      I have been reading up on the "google dance" but this is a little different and doesn't seem right.

      My niche website has been up now for around a month at a guess, it has a total of 9 articles (each over 800+ words), written with SEO in mind and the help of SEOprosser (90%+ SEO rating).
      I have used a site map, Privacy Policy, FTC etc etc.

      I started building my own backlink wheels to the website 2 weeks ago and kept up a constant of 1 to 4 backlinks per day. Which made me dance around google for my targeted key words (page 2 to 4). I decided to out source the backlink building to someone on fiverr to someone who built a 5 spoke link wheel to my niche site, then blast those 5 sites with backlinks of there own, this placed me on the front page of google and i started to see traffic coming in.

      I thought it was time to monetize it with adsense and amazon (2 adsense ads per page and 1 amazon affiliate link per 800 words) so in no way stuffed with ads and amazon affiliate links, 24 hours later my website has completely disappeared off the front page and no where to be found (checked 20 pages at least).

      The niche im trying to rank is easy and more of an experience site to get me ready for more competitive words.

      I am confused why it exploded ? I did the google 'site:' check and its still found with all the pages indexed. (With the changes)

      Should i buy more fiverr gigs ? Any had this before ?

      Thanks for all the advice.
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      • Profile picture of the author mosthost
        This seems to happen a lot with low quality links. At first, they counted and you got a benefit. Then Google discounted them and you were lowered way down. You're still indexed, so it's not a huge issue.
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      • Profile picture of the author Melissa82
        Just keep adding backlinks. One month is too early to declare anything. Stay consistent with your method and you'll laugh about this thread in a couple of weeks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Talen
        When you start a new site Google gives you a bit of a push and you can easily be found but a few weeks in to a month your site will filter into where it should really rank and that's when the work begins.
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    • Profile picture of the author swansonjp
      Hi Everyone,

      I have a new site (1 month old) it was at #12 for my target keyword. Its currently at #98 after the first linking attempt.....

      Do i add more content and quit link building for now or do i continue linking....

      Any Thoughts will be much appreciated
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      • Profile picture of the author Melissa82
        Stay consistent with your link building for at least three months.
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        • Profile picture of the author hotboy18
          Continue to post quality content on your site and link building to increase your rankings. Google is just try to figure where to put you site in the rankings and most likely it will increase as you keep optimizing your site.
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      • Profile picture of the author stevet563
        Stay consistent and remember to get links from relative sites, meaning sites that are related to your niche. Do blog commenting, forum posts, you tube videos, a lot of different sources is always best. If you should have a blog with your name in the domain. link back to your site from there too. Good luck.
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      • Profile picture of the author raw almond
        yeah the practices i follow, and have been suggested to follow is just continue doing what you do. continue building backlinks, follow SEO best practices, and continue building quality content.

        haven't heard about anything else you really can do when google's doing it's little dance.
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    • Profile picture of the author Logicson
      I have the same problem for my all websites...........
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      • Profile picture of the author JeromyS
        Originally Posted by cdh View Post

        What is the best way to check your site position?
        I use Traffic Travis, it works well.
        I have heard the term "panda" lately, I am assuming this is a new algorithm that Google is using. I have tried and tried and it is soooo confusing to fully understand the whole Google dance thing. Seems to me this post has a number of folks that agree, the best way to rank is to continually add unique quality content and build backlinks slowly.
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        • Profile picture of the author Morbrook
          My 1 year old amazon site is dancing from page 1 to page 800 after a new backlinking campaign. Stays on page 1 for a few days, then to page 700 or 800 for 5 to 10 days, then back to page 1 . This has happen 6 times in a row now. Hopefully it will settle down soon.
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    • Profile picture of the author seoavadhesh
      It could happen any time. This is known as google dance.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tom Albas
      Every one should use this link for further information about recover from Google Dance.
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    • Profile picture of the author MaryMartha
      every time i face google dance but i know it not for longer time so i don't effect at my work
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    • Profile picture of the author mwoolerymedia
      Like he said it can happen at any time. Just wait.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dexter AJ
        I dont think Google Dance is much of an issue if you do it properly. If you are lazy with your work Dance or no Dance, you will face problems.
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    • Profile picture of the author samfinance
      its happen because of link building.
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    • Profile picture of the author jannet1
      Yeah it is called Google dance ! Most of the times it is happened when Google are going to modify the algorithm and updates in the SERPs ...
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    • Profile picture of the author Hooker
      I just lauched my blog on December 1st so I'm not sure what's going on here...

      I have written a series of articles that are numbered, "keyword phrase 1, keyword phrase 2, keyword phrase 3..." and so on.

      One of my articles has made it to page 2 on Google, but it is a different article in the series every day, AND there are no other articles in the series in sight after checking back to page 20.

      Does anyone know if I need to change anything to keep moving my articles up?
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    • Profile picture of the author ricky pounting
      Originally Posted by Adie View Post

      It's been a month that I am monitoring one of my sites ranking while continuously building links and I can't really figure out why this is happening..

      My site's ranking are:

      12th
      92 after 3 days
      back to 45 after 3 days
      103 after 4 days
      37 after 3 days
      9 after 4 days
      75 after 3 days
      18 after 3 days
      82 after 3 days

      the highest is 6 and after 3 days it's back again to 46
      so on and so forth...

      any recommendation to make it steady at least to a higher position is highly appreciated...

      Thanks,
      adie
      that is simple google dancing. It will be stable after some days. You should try to make more and more backlinks in these days.
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    • Profile picture of the author rakhi2012
      Yes i completely agree with you because its depends on google algorithm so don't worried about this.
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    • Profile picture of the author seoexpertrizwan
      Originally Posted by Adie View Post

      It's been a month that I am monitoring one of my sites ranking while continuously building links and I can't really figure out why this is happening..

      My site's ranking are:

      12th
      92 after 3 days
      back to 45 after 3 days
      103 after 4 days
      37 after 3 days
      9 after 4 days
      75 after 3 days
      18 after 3 days
      82 after 3 days

      the highest is 6 and after 3 days it's back again to 46
      so on and so forth...

      any recommendation to make it steady at least to a higher position is highly appreciated...

      Thanks,
      adie
      Adie its a Google dance don't stop by backlink but tried to make some quality backlink that will help you to make your site permanently getting positions.
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      • Profile picture of the author toman
        Originally Posted by seoexpertrizwan View Post

        Adie its a Google dance don't stop by backlink but tried to make some quality backlink that will help you to make your site permanently getting positions.
        Yes,quality backlinks is the key right now.
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        • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
          Originally Posted by toman View Post

          Yes,quality backlinks is the key right now.
          Quality backlinks have always been the key
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  • Profile picture of the author eyefox
    I have one site 2 day ages, I build unique content and it got 200 visit/per day, after one week, it dancing ! I don't see my keyword on top 10, and all go to page 6 or 7.

    I just bookmark to some site to get Google index after post. So, now I must waiting !
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  • Profile picture of the author ianvictorgabon
    I am also experiencing this. My sites rank from page 6 sometimes down to page 30 and now back to page 2. I always do backlinking in a daily basis. will now try to diversiy my links to move to page 1.
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  • Profile picture of the author sandersailare
    Guys, there is no need to worry about this thing called "Google Dance" for it already ceased to exist few years ago already. Right now, it was merely a term used by some so called SEOexperts so there can be something that they may blame when their or client's site fluctuate in its ranking.

    As for explanation, few year ago, there was a time when rankings stay in its position for about 3 weeks wherein, wherever your page is place for a search term, it stays their for the next 3 weeks. Then after the 3 weeks period, Google updates it rankings and so "Google Dance" occurs. It is the time when all rankings were all over the place and it lasted for 3 days.

    That is what "Google Dance" really is. But now, is it nothing but just a mere term used by some as an excuses for not knowing the reason of fluctuation.
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  • Profile picture of the author pankajrocks
    When a website's ranking is going up and down or getting disappear from keyword then it is called as Google Dance..
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  • Profile picture of the author jastindpfoc
    Thanks kkchoon, i am getting more from your post, thanks for sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author RaySaj
    just to add my own 2 cents...Google seems to change their data a lot in relation to the SERP's with the competition...i.e., search terms which are high search ones seem to be the ones which fluctuate the most...
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  • Profile picture of the author GrowTraffic
    In my experience things tend to jump around after links have been built to a page but if it is jumping around erratically that would suggest that the link building has been done in a dodgy way that Google doesn't like - it will calm down in time but it might not stick where you think or hope it will.

    I have noticed in the past that sometimes if a website jumps around for a rank, the website will often sit one of two positions below the highest rank it gets to.
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  • Profile picture of the author Silverlight
    Have just seen this occur. Due to algo changes Google reflects all pages on a site when detemining strength of main page. This means a great article on an inner page will now boost the main page and cause the Google dance to occur as it determines the value of the added content.
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  • Profile picture of the author seonetsmartz
    Google Dance is used to describe the period that a major index update of the Google search engine are being implemented. But in case that may effect and may not.
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    • Profile picture of the author aygabtu
      Well after about 3 weeks of dropping one of my sites bounced back to about the same SERP level it was before. Not sure if it was because of actions I took or just the google dance. It would have been nice if it was actually higher than before, but I will be repeating a lot of what I did the last three weeks to see if I can build on where it is at.
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  • Profile picture of the author RonaldReegan
    The name "Google Dance" was in the history used to describe the period that a major guide inform of the Google search engine are being implemented. These main Google index update occurred on average each 36 days or 10 times per year. It was easiest be recognized by significant changes in search results, and by an update of Google's cache of all indexed pages. These changes would be obvious from one minute to the next. But the update did not proceed as a switch from one index to another like the flip of a switch. In fact, it took numerous days to finish the complete update of the index
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  • Profile picture of the author jimmyn
    The Google dance is actually something the staff at Google perform when they successfully update the algorithm for their search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author LiftMyRank
    To reduce the effects of the Google dance make sure you keep your link velocity constant and try adding more unique content to your site, then it's just a matter of waiting it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author eyefox
    My site have unique contents, I have check on copyscape before posted. But now, It's dancing on google a second time. The first time just 2 days and come with 200 uv, but now I don't now when My site will come back !
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    • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
      Originally Posted by eyefox View Post

      My site have unique contents, I have check on copyscape before posted. But now, It's dancing on google a second time. The first time just 2 days and come with 200 uv, but now I don't now when My site will come back !
      Google Dance happens when your website / web page received too many backlinks in a short period, and it triggers the so called "Google Dance", where your site / page ranking is dancing up and down for a particular keyword. I guess Google might be trying to catch spammer, if you try to optimize your web page that targeting the keyword, you might trigger a temporary filter - sandbox!

      So when your site is dancing around, just keep building more backlinks, and remember to mix your backlink type and anchor text (a bit of variation, 10% will do), this will help it stabilized in 1 week. During this period, DO NOT STOP the link building campaign, you want to continue building more backlinks to stabilize your keyword's ranking, stopping the campaign might result in lower ranking later.
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  • Profile picture of the author optimizenewyork
    The name Google Dance is a term used to describe the index update of the Google search engine. By using the Google Dance Tool , you can easily determine if Google has started their monthly spidering of the internet. Type in a keyword you would like to search for and choose some of Google's data centers to perform the search query on. You will then see a page displaying the search results of all the Google data centers you have chosen. If any of the results between the different data centers contain discrepencies, then you know that Google has started to spider.
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    • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
      Originally Posted by optimizenewyork View Post

      The name Google Dance is a term used to describe the index update of the Google search engine. By using the Google Dance Tool , you can easily determine if Google has started their monthly spidering of the internet. Type in a keyword you would like to search for and choose some of Google's data centers to perform the search query on. You will then see a page displaying the search results of all the Google data centers you have chosen. If any of the results between the different data centers contain discrepencies, then you know that Google has started to spider.
      I have heard something like that before, but that is not accurate. I say this because from my previous projects, each and every time we spike certain amount of links to a page, it triggers Google Dance, and this never happens if my site don't have spike of backlinks coming in! So I don't think the above theory is correct.
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  • Profile picture of the author optimizenewyork
    The Google Dance goes back to the good old days of search engine optimization. Google used to update PageRank (PR) and the search engine rankings (SERPs) on a monthly basis. It was a big event as the updates would roll out. The SEO Forums would always be awash with long threads as webmasters announced their new PR and site rankings. Webmaster World would always name each update in the same way hurricanes were given names. In 2003, Google stopped the Google Dance and went to continuous updates. The SERPs and PR are updated continuously and there is no Google Dance anymore.
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  • Profile picture of the author jones1982
    Google dancing problem happen maximum time for new release site & if you continue update your site..
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  • Profile picture of the author lisadan1
    Originally Posted by Kappa View Post

    I have a question. If I write a new article for my blog, and decide that I want to use backlinking on the inner page, does that usually cause the top level website to go through the "google dance" phenomenon?
    I think in one Google dance means if you will not build linking consistently, google do some Algonquin and data refreshment and on this basis make site up and down. You have to back link in consistent manner and for this backlinksindexer is good and will give you good result.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dumkist
    So what do you guys think about a site that shows on page one of bing...yahoo and Google..then it is gone from the top 1000 in all the search engines for the past 2 weeks..but is still indexed..I am lost on this one..never seen this before :-(
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  • Profile picture of the author gbreddiesel
    Google Dance usually happens. So, there are fluctuations in ranks. It will settle by the time soon. Just continue.
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  • Profile picture of the author xaby
    happened to me just this morning. to my own site. and my heart is dancing as well....
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe Karl
    Build more sites!! and let that one settle for a bit but, still build links to it!!
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  • Profile picture of the author optimizenewyork
    The name "Google Dance" is often used to describe the index update of the Google search engine. Google's index update occurs on average once per month. It can be identified by significant movement in search results and especially by Google's cache of all indexed pages reflecting the status of Google's last spidering.

    But the update does not proceed as a switch from one index to another at one point in time. In fact, it takes several days to complete the index update. During this period, the old and the new index alternate on Google. At an early stage, the results from the new index occur sporadically. But later on, they appear more frequently. Google dances.
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  • Profile picture of the author jeppa123
    Can't seem to find that META-description changes also might drop your site for a while?
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  • Profile picture of the author addisonben22
    Google dance is a process in which our sites ranking is updated by google. When our sites ranking is up - down then it is google dance. Google dance time limit is depend on our sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author vatsydick
    helpful sharing clear my many issues
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  • Profile picture of the author HorseStall
    A Google Dance is just a shakeup in the organic ranking for keywords, it often happens when Google is tweaking their algo, or when different data centers reflect different results.
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  • Profile picture of the author anku9696
    As per i know we generally see google dance on the pages of which backlinking has been done and there is no change in the root domain .
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  • Profile picture of the author BlackMetal
    I have found, almost every time my sites experience the Google dance, they usually end up higher than previously ranked, so the dance is usually a good thing
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  • Profile picture of the author Top1position
    Google dance is nothing only a data center so do work nothing will happen
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Linley
    I guess the google dance phenomenon is normal especially if your website is new. You just have to consistently build backlinks to your page/site and make sure you use white hat. It may take time to see the positive results but it's going to be worth it.

    Don't worry about it that much. As long as you know you are doing the backlinks properly, you are rest assured to get better position in SERPs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Timby
    One of my sites is hopefully in the midst of this google dance. I was ranking in the top 20 for a very competitive term after just 8 months and now my site has disappeared for almost a month. I have continued adding content and building links so I'm hoping it will bounce back for this keyword soon.

    Thanks for the info guys!
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    • Profile picture of the author jeromie
      Originally Posted by Timby View Post

      One of my sites is hopefully in the midst of this google dance. I was ranking in the top 20 for a very competitive term after just 8 months and now my site has disappeared for almost a month. I have continued adding content and building links so I'm hoping it will bounce back for this keyword soon.

      Thanks for the info guys!
      Same here man, ranking real good for some competitive words and now I have been gone for 2 months now. Still waiting...
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    • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
      Originally Posted by Timby View Post

      One of my sites is hopefully in the midst of this google dance. I was ranking in the top 20 for a very competitive term after just 8 months and now my site has disappeared for almost a month. I have continued adding content and building links so I'm hoping it will bounce back for this keyword soon.

      Thanks for the info guys!
      Hi,

      As for my experience, please do not change or update your contents during link building campaign, this is a very bad idea. I did that before and my site was gone forever. You can update or change your site content, but not during link campaign, this should happen before any link building campaign or 1 month after link building campaign.
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      • Profile picture of the author dennis09
        Originally Posted by kkchoon View Post

        Hi,

        As for my experience, please do not change or update your contents during link building campaign, this is a very bad idea. I did that before and my site was gone forever. You can update or change your site content, but not during link campaign, this should happen before any link building campaign or 1 month after link building campaign.

        Hmm, this has not been the case for me. I usually see serp gains when I go back and update content. This doesn't fly logically as well. When someone leave a comment on an article that counts as an update to the content on that page. If this was the case then every time someone leaves a comment your site would disappear. I don't think it is that simple.
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  • Profile picture of the author irfanmeo
    and if we build links for the newer sites and we have only 2 to 3 months to rank our keywords(otherwise there will no benefit for that keywords) then google dance will ruin our efforts. isn't it????
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    • Profile picture of the author vcarecorporation
      Originally Posted by irfanmeo View Post

      and if we build links for the newer sites and we have only 2 to 3 months to rank our keywords(otherwise there will no benefit for that keywords) then google dance will ruin our efforts. isn't it????
      Definitely,Google dance occurred some problem but if your backlink is effective and having potential to survive in GD.Then your keywords also perform well.
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  • Profile picture of the author bloation
    I hate google dance, makes my heart races up and down becuase of the rankings resultant from it. HA
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  • Profile picture of the author jacksonlin
    I think it's safe to say, yes your site will disappear and come back even stronger if you keep your good backlinking,
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnnyS
    Google wants fresh and unique content, yes it will affect your rankings but if you want a better rankings you need to do this. Then plan your new LB strategy for your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author roomservice
    I suggest you shouldn't be too worried about the Google dance.
    A page or site allways comes back
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  • Profile picture of the author upendra
    does anyone knows about google analytics
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  • Profile picture of the author singaporeasiaco
    My site's 1year4months old..
    If you look at the link below, are these the typical signs of a Google dance? Homepage deindex // PR Zero // InnerPages ranking.. Do share over at the below thread if you can Thank you!

    Please see this thread and feel free to reply!
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  • Profile picture of the author graham09
    Hi,

    I would like to make you correct first that Google dance is no more now. Actually, Google Dance used to rebuild the ranking of websites on SERPs as a result of that ranks used to get fluctuated. It used to be occurred 36 times a year. Now, Google updates its ranking on weekly basis.
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    • Profile picture of the author singaporeasiaco
      Originally Posted by graham09 View Post

      Hi,

      I would like to make you correct first that Google dance is no more now. Actually, Google Dance used to rebuild the ranking of websites on SERPs as a result of that ranks used to get fluctuated. It used to be occurred 36 times a year. Now, Google updates its ranking on weekly basis.
      So if my Homepage "dances out of google top500" will it return within one week?

      Here is my situation.. maybe you could help look at it?
      warriorforum.com[DOT]adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/548040-please-help-homepage-deindexed-inner-pages-ranking-google-pagerank-gone.html
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  • Profile picture of the author Blocked
    I am still confused,,
    Huffft .....
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  • Profile picture of the author seobyindia
    Google dance happens when you don't build your link consistently...Same is the case with one of my website in opposite direction because many keywords of my website have been dramatically improved in search engine rankings of Google.com.
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  • Profile picture of the author SalAG
    Sorry but I don't know what's Google dance? Somebody describe it for me. Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ettienne
      Originally Posted by SalAG View Post

      Sorry but I don't know what's Google dance? Somebody describe it for me. Thanks!
      If your rankings fluctuate consistently. For example: One day you rank #22 and a week later #50, 2 weeks after that you're at #38 and then #11... and so forth and so on.

      This usually happens when building mass backlinks. Sites generally recover better with higher rankings than before if building proper backlinks, however, if you use black/grey hat techniques your drop in rankings might be permanent.
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      • Profile picture of the author SalAG
        Thank you! My intuition is right. Google dance sounds cool huh. The word dance has both positive and negative meanings here. I wonder who came up with such word. Thanks again.
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  • Profile picture of the author App Developers
    Google dances can be very worrisome. I had a site dance for about three months and I was convinced it would never stop! But it did..and with better than ever rankings. I tried not to panic and continued to build links. At times I would slow down but that did not seem to help.
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  • Profile picture of the author ToneyCr
    My site is about two weeks old and I didn't had problems with Google dance. When I can expect it if it is not already happend?
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  • Profile picture of the author TopBackBuilder
    A good way to avoid google dance is by avoiding google webmaster tools and google analytics, there are plenty of good analytics tools out there besides google.
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  • Profile picture of the author vahn
    some of my website were hit by this google dance. fortunately it's not the one that generate much income.
    i think the unique content still the king...
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    • Profile picture of the author [leo]
      Indeed content is king and will be for a very longtime. That's too bad that your site was affected. You just have to keep trying and dance around the competition to the better rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author profilelinks
    No not at all...
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  • Profile picture of the author LinkerLEE
    Who can say how long your PR can be N\A during GoogleD and whan it will return back?
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  • Profile picture of the author forumsposter
    When search engine going update and refresh the data then search engine results facing a big change and keyword position will be effected that called Google dance.
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  • Profile picture of the author LinkerLEE
    Why my site have different spots from different countries for same keyword?
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    • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
      Originally Posted by LinkerLEE View Post

      Why my site have different spots from different countries for same keyword?
      It seems like there is different competition rate and different number of results in different country for a particular search terms, therefore, different ranking position as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author LinkerLEE
    I found interesting article about Google Dance. Mayby for smb it will be usefull too.

    http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Is-th...gn?&id=6797965
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    • Profile picture of the author Dandybeer
      Originally Posted by LinkerLEE View Post

      I found interesting article about Google Dance. Mayby for smb it will be usefull too.

      http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Is-th...gn?&id=6797965
      Thanks.
      But on my exp. PR on my site re-gained only after 7 weeks.
      NOT within next 2-3 weeks the PR will be re-gained.
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  • Profile picture of the author speedbird
    Originally Posted by Kappa View Post

    I have a question. If I write a new article for my blog, and decide that I want to use backlinking on the inner page, does that usually cause the top level website to go through the "google dance" phenomenon?
    I don't think so, Google views each page differently even if they are from the same domain. That means one blog post can be affected and the one is just showing steady rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author jinn
    Hello guys,

    I used to rank on number 1 on one of my keywords, but a couple of weeks ago my site just dissapeared from google, not a single keyword is showing on the SERP. i know i have not been doing any build linking, can google simply ban a site just like that? maybe an algo update? please advice

    apprecaite your help!

    Br

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    • Profile picture of the author Seo Mall
      Originally Posted by jinn View Post

      Hello guys,

      I used to rank on number 1 on one of my keywords, but a couple of weeks ago my site just dissapeared from google, not a single keyword is showing on the SERP. i know i have not been doing any build linking, can google simply ban a site just like that? maybe an algo update? please advice

      apprecaite your help!

      Br

      Jinn
      Hm, I always thought that if your site is banned by Google - you receive "Banned letter" with reasons for it... Or am I mistaken?
      Did you receive something from Google?
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      • Profile picture of the author jinn
        Originally Posted by Seo Mall View Post

        Hm, I always thought that if your site is banned by Google - you receive "Banned letter" with reasons for it... Or am I mistaken?
        Did you receive something from Google?
        Hello Seo Mall,

        No, i've not receivee anything from google about that. I just logged on to my google webmaster tools account and noticed there was a message about the robots.txt for my website, there was something wrong with it. I've fix it (i think :p) and indexed the robots.txt but could that be the reason? What do you guys think? Can a faulty robots.txt lead to site disappearance from SERP?

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      • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
        Originally Posted by Seo Mall View Post

        Hm, I always thought that if your site is banned by Google - you receive "Banned letter" with reasons for it... Or am I mistaken?
        Did you receive something from Google?
        No, they definitely don't always do that - the people who happen to get emails like that are just generally the ones you see posting in forums about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author [leo]
    Google calls the shots and will continue to look for quality in their space. The Google dance is no longer,but its seem to more of a slam dance.
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  • Profile picture of the author adammck
    Lately my new site has been doing the Google dance. The one thing that concerns me is that for the primary keyword, every few hours I search for it and check, it's moved and links to a different page then the time before.

    The primary keyword does appear on other pages on the site too, but more targetting the long tail of those searchers i.e 'Primary Keyword / Information'... I have a feeling I am cannibalizing the home page, but not too sure how to fix the issue.

    Thoughts?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark101
    Whenever Search engine update their algorithm of refresh data then search engine results going to fluctuate that's called 'Google Dance'.
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  • Profile picture of the author upendraets
    Google Dance problem creates when you want your site on top SERP without having quality backlinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
      Originally Posted by upendraets View Post

      Google Dance problem creates when you want your site on top SERP without having quality backlinks.
      That does play a part in it but don't think that is the only reason since there is a ton more involved
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      • Profile picture of the author Michael Coudriet
        Originally Posted by Chase Watts View Post

        That does play a part in it but don't think that is the only reason since there is a ton more involved
        Both quality and quantity of links can have an effect as well as site age, PR, site size, targeted keyword, monthly link building strategy etcc.......
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    • Profile picture of the author mrehan
      Google Dance is when Matt Cutts and the google search engine team gets together and do the hip hop dance.
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  • Profile picture of the author sujeetets
    If site is new or if back link is not a balance way. then site are Google dancing state.
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  • Profile picture of the author teamcrunk
    how long does it take for google to stop dancing with sites? i got a seo backlink back and it keeps jumping spots will it stop soon?
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Coudriet
      Originally Posted by teamcrunk View Post

      how long does it take for google to stop dancing with sites? i got a seo backlink back and it keeps jumping spots will it stop soon?
      Dancing time can vary for sure. There can be a few factors involved such as your site age, page rank, and backlinking profile, the type of link you got etc..... Some sites recover very quickly (within weeks) some take months. Sometimes sites never quite recover. A lot can be determined/effected by your month to month SEO efforts and content building strategy.
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      • Profile picture of the author ponvendhan
        Originally Posted by Michael Coudriet View Post

        Dancing time can vary for sure. There can be a few factors involved such as your site age, page rank, and backlinking profile, the type of link you got etc..... Some sites recover very quickly (within weeks) some take months. Sometimes sites never quite recover. A lot can be determined/effected by your month to month SEO efforts and content building strategy.
        I think there is no relation between Page Rank and google dance, when dance is based on competitor, backlinks and keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author mumeeb1
    No effect of inner pages its not complicated issue.
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  • Profile picture of the author seocindrella
    hi,
    This is very exclusive topic i didn't know about it. Thanks for discussing about Google dance.
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  • Profile picture of the author 808glass
    The VERY BEST thing you can do while your website dances is continue to build useful content filled links. This will help the recovery time AND help rank your site higher.

    Happy Linking
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  • Profile picture of the author RoyCTP
    Once Google notices new links to your website, they need to reposition you. You will notice the dance after you do some linking. It is best practice to constantly be sending links to your site. This is more natural and you will have the best results, as long as your sending quality links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vimalsingh
    Google dance is the changes in the ranking of the websites.Google always give the preference those websites and which are seo friendly and over good content.These websites ranking is changed daily.All of these changes in ranking are called the google dance just simple.
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  • Profile picture of the author leorocking25
    Yeah that's true but we can't help but use google.I think it will automatically solve by the Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author glock67
    i believe the top page and secondary pages operate independently so they should not effect each other
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  • Profile picture of the author sackboy127
    If you see your site dancing, that's a good sign, it means Google is trying to find the perfect place for it in the SERPs. Just keep on building links, and it will come back higher.
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    • Profile picture of the author harveyronn
      Originally Posted by sackboy127 View Post

      If you see your site dancing, that's a good sign, it means Google is trying to find the perfect place for it in the SERPs. Just keep on building links, and it will come back higher.
      I'm totally agreed with you, don't so much worry about your website position on Google index, if it is more dancing then just give some time for it and do more quality link building regularly.
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    • Profile picture of the author nvd650
      Originally Posted by sackboy127 View Post

      If you see your site dancing, that's a good sign, it means Google is trying to find the perfect place for it in the SERPs. Just keep on building links, and it will come back higher.

      Are you sure about this? In near past 2 of my sites went down and stopped linkbuilding for them and now one came back with higher positions than before, now what should I do? Like I don't think that your statement is 100% correct because in my opinion it can even be sandbox, right?

      Need more in details please......
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  • Profile picture of the author northtrans
    no idea bout this..i guess all are going through google dance...
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  • Profile picture of the author carrotdogs
    Interesting Thread, The 'Google dance' doesn't seem like you should spend time worrying about it. Just keep building good quality links and your rankings will increase. Be patient and don't worry about the Google Dance too much
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  • Profile picture of the author creativesnaps
    Confusion

    My site be climbing the ranking and had got to 29 on Google.com and 71 Google.co.uk

    I am based in the UK so don't understand why the Google.com is ranking higher but now after the weekend

    I still at 29 Google.com but 130 Google.co.uk

    Will it pop back up or have i done something bad ;-( or is this normal ?
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  • Profile picture of the author ranaamir
    its, great, but not efficient.
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    • Profile picture of the author creativesnaps
      Now 32 position on Google.com

      249 on Google.co.uk

      was 71 and keeps slipping ;-(
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  • Profile picture of the author warnerrandolph
    You can never predict google dance.. and it always happen whenever you are doing a backlink campaigns..
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  • Profile picture of the author trizzypballr
    I have a site that has 3 different articles on it, all 3 have backlinks, and in my SHORT experience I would believe that they have enough to at least make top 30 or 40 for sure. My question though is that I havent backlinked to any of the articles in this site for the past 2 month, but it still dances. An article will be ranked 20th 1 day, and then drop out of the top 100 for a week, just to come back into the top 20 again for 1 day. All 3 articles on this site are doing that. How long will this last? Any way to help with it?
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  • Profile picture of the author JeromyS
    Basically it can just keep dancing!
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  • Profile picture of the author kandcotpss
    Hi,

    It could take some time while the result stabilizes.
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  • Profile picture of the author KateSolomon
    "Google Dance" I like this word.
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  • Profile picture of the author femus21
    No it do not matter actually i am still in doubt that google dance exist
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  • Profile picture of the author slc4us
    I think your page of website or blog may go for Google dance if you take the acts of making more backlinks at one time
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  • Profile picture of the author lissya212
    We've heard a few different belongings referred to as "the Google Dance", but only one is really correct. It's the period when Google is renovation its rankings, and results change extensively for a 3 to 5 day period.
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  • Profile picture of the author chetankm
    i hate google dancing one of keyword drop from position 6 to 15.2
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    • Profile picture of the author digitaltwist
      I'm currently dancing. Purchased my site a few weeks back and got it to 24 for a keyword as I was first building backlinks. Now I'm around 50 and sometimes it doesn't even show up.

      "Nobody puts baby in a corner"
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  • Profile picture of the author upendraets
    every one who has the less backlink for keywords will be effected by google dance.
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  • Profile picture of the author amherstsowell
    Google dance is different concept. you can add any page in your article.
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    • Profile picture of the author rth98122
      Have been working on a couple of smaller sites more or less for the learning experience. Had both of them ranking on page 1 for a number of keywords, and have been moving ahead with larger more ambitious projects as I seemed to be getting the hang of this.

      Then yesterday, out of the blue, every single one of the pages that were ranking on page 1 (on both sites) disappeared out of the top 100 completely. Haven't bothered to see exactly how far down they've gone - past page 10 is as good as gone IMO.

      Interestingly, this seems to coincide with G's new "penguin" algo update - so who knows if this is going to be a permanent penalty or if - HOPEFULLY - the dance is going to continue and things will bounce back?

      Now I know why this thread is a sticky with a zillion posts in it - sort of hard to focus on doing more hard work when it all seems for naught.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vivers
    I was wondering this as well. I have been working on ranking a particular keyword which I took from 27th to 12th in 2 weeks or so only to see it drop to 34th out of nowhere. I guess it's just all normal and I keep on keeping on?
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  • Profile picture of the author BetaMaster
    I got google dance 3 weeks ago because I build my site with low quality links. Then, I try to hire a professional seo service which can build backlink consistently until I reach page one. I also write unique content regularly. So, I think building backlink must be done along with writing unique content to make your site more stable.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarvyDery
    if you are doing proper seo that google loves, then forget about the google dance. because after google has finished dancing, you would be moved to a higher position. Any change on a post or page affects the whole site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brrainstormerr
    Google Dance is nothing but a temporary rank for your page while Google is calculating page rankings using their algo (which can often take a long time). It can also happen when your competitors have made some substantial changes to their sites and Google is forced to re-evaluate positions. After the calculations are over, your page gets a fixed position, which is when the dance stops. And whether your page went up the listing or down, depends on how well your SEO was (at least the way Google sees it) besides other factors...
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    • Profile picture of the author nvd650
      Originally Posted by Brrainstormerr View Post

      Google Dance is nothing but a temporary rank for your page while Google is calculating page rankings using their algo (which can often take a long time). It can also happen when your competitors have made some substantial changes
      Yes that make sense, and often positions are improved than before... but what if client take it as black list? how to make him understand
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      • Profile picture of the author Brrainstormerr
        Originally Posted by nvd650 View Post

        Yes that make sense, and often positions are improved than before... but what if client take it as black list? how to make him understand
        Well, just explain to your client what Google dance exactly is and how it works... i even tell my clients that it's a good thing to see you sites drop... its like you have to take a few steps back as you try and make a long jump forward...
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  • Profile picture of the author john8954
    When you do bulk directory submission in c class ip in that case google decrease your ranking suddenly.Or if you try to do bulk submissions only.

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  • Profile picture of the author pearsonseo
    Google dance indicates that your link building strategy is still alive, its good in many cases...
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  • Profile picture of the author khurramseo
    If you re-write URL according to your article it think i will help you or ping your web sites with specific inner link URL.
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  • Profile picture of the author muddassarshah
    Google checking your site through Google dance...
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  • Profile picture of the author charmi2008
    Yes you can do it. There is no issue.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnaustin9
    i think google dance is nothing to do with the your website or blog post it is related to the the google algorithm.Due to change in the the algorithm ranking of the site is drastically changes.
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  • Profile picture of the author oliversmith
    I don't worry fully confidence, but i think Panda Update are main reason your Google dancing. may be your some contents are copies.
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    • Profile picture of the author NRC1983
      My site has been doing a slight google dance for several weeks now for the term professional matchmaker, I will be at no. 9 then slip down to no. 4, then back to no. 9 or no. 10, I seem to be competing with three or four other sites, what can get me to the top?
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      • Profile picture of the author trizzypballr
        Originally Posted by NRC1983 View Post

        My site has been doing a slight google dance for several weeks now for the term professional matchmaker, I will be at no. 9 then slip down to no. 4, then back to no. 9 or no. 10, I seem to be competing with three or four other sites, what can get me to the top?
        Wait for the dance to settle, see where it takes you. Be careful with backlinking, especially since Penguin. The best type of backlink you can get it to Guest Blog for a relevant site to your niche.

        Any type of backlinks that you get, make sure they are relevant to your niche so you dont need to worry about future updates drilling you.

        Also avoid spun content unless you have a GREAT spun article, that reads perfectly every time, with an 80%+ spin.

        Make sure to vary up your anchor text. As a rule of thumb, I am trying to only have 10% keyword anchor text.

        Also make sure to backlink your inner pages more than your root, and dont forget any inners, you must make it look natural.
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  • Profile picture of the author tenovid
    So sad 2 of my blog got bad impact from Dance, especially from Penguin update this April. God, Google is the king on net, but why he or she did this especially bad impact for local business.
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  • Profile picture of the author codecreative
    my site has gone from #6 to #33 its a new site
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  • Profile picture of the author esaledeal
    Thank you for your suggestion ,i am also facing this type of google dance problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author oliverroom
    for me google dance happen when you are not working on your links constantly. i think you should be more be attentive on your links..
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  • Profile picture of the author soweell
    When Google in updation, then ranking fluctuate is called google dance.....
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  • Profile picture of the author wakas
    Google dance may effect your search rank position.it's all due to change in algorithm.if you will use legal way of link building you will get back to your original position.
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  • Profile picture of the author protazy
    Originally Posted by UMS

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    Why is a thread like this stickied?

    Because it is a VERY FAQ



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  • Profile picture of the author uyendt
    Thanks KKchoon. the post very good
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Albas
    I think old algorithm completed removed so why users are getting worried.
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    • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
      Originally Posted by DavidTiger View Post

      This method may help you before new update in Google algorithm but now this update really make you suffer a lot.
      Times are always changing, roll with the punches and it will work out for you
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  • Profile picture of the author soweell
    When Google database is updated then is called Google Dance
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  • Profile picture of the author toman
    The google dance tool is designed to help webmasters determing when the google dance has started and google is spidering the internet.
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  • I think consistency with the backlinks is very important to establish good ranking, so prioritize a specific page and then work it.
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  • Profile picture of the author de@xtremer
    Actually Google dance is temporary and it will change time by time like some time your site get high rank and some time it decrease your site PR. But if you work regularly then your site will come back.
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  • Profile picture of the author alanross
    Look at the google dance in a positive way, its not as bad as people make out, and certainly nothing to fear.
    Google is paying an interest in your site, as your building links and doing seo etc. Google looks at your site and gathers information as to how important your site now is, so it will start the dance, and try to work out where it should put your site in the serps,
    (Usually its higher than before), once the dance settles. I have had sites go from page 1 bottom, to page 10, 1 hour later page nowhere, next day page 23, then a week later page 1 number 1. It does happen. But remember don't stop building quality backlinks, as you will arouse suspicion with google if yopu just stoip. keep everything natural is the key.
    And remember links its quality not quantity. 5 pr 5 links are more effective than 300 low page links.
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    • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
      Originally Posted by Pettar28 View Post

      Google dance is happens when you any change on related to your website ,,this is the update process from Google .
      It CAN happen then but just because you make a change doesn't mean that it will definitely happen.
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    • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
      Originally Posted by ChristopherMarry View Post

      I have not experience
      Did you have any specific questions?
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  • Profile picture of the author keithotzkie
    Hi there..
    I think most of the website owners experienced this google dance..
    I think you shouldnt worry to much on it but still I would recommend you to keep putting up a good quality content on your site and do backlinks to increase your website's traffic.. Im not that really good at this but just trying to help..
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  • Profile picture of the author autoguideindia
    Google Dance is a different thing. You must to concentrate on good backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author indiainternet2012
    no it is not like that..you are absolutely free to give any page link in your article..but try to do only 2 links in one article...
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  • Profile picture of the author App Developers
    It is hard to say. if you are going to back link there is always a chance of the google dance. good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author Sexy 7
    Originally Posted by Kappa View Post

    I have a question. If I write a new article for my blog, and decide that I want to use backlinking on the inner page, does that usually cause the top level website to go through the "google dance" phenomenon?
    Not that I am aware of. Google dance is done and the penguine loves new pagesw. Blogs are still king.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sexy 7
      Originally Posted by Sexy 7 View Post

      Not that I am aware of. Google dance is done and the penguine loves new pagesw. Blogs are still king.
      From an ROI point of view.

      And we all know that's what matters. I get a positive return on my newest campaigns.

      Hey and by the way did you hear what the midget stripper did to me last night? She pullue the tree up and down. ............................
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  • Profile picture of the author multiplecloud
    Google not dance. It should be excuse from you or SEO firm who you hire Now after Penguin update, I can see this is real time ranking which already update based on many factor you have done.
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  • Profile picture of the author bethjanick
    Google Dance interesting Is it some kind of SandBox related process for new websites?
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  • Profile picture of the author indiainternet2012
    no its not like that. very frequently you can give link to your inner page...
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  • Profile picture of the author Deepikarajpal
    Not think so..you are working on your website so it does not affect any top level website
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  • Profile picture of the author CloudITServices
    I like the dance....
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    • Profile picture of the author waysmeans
      Originally Posted by CloudITServices View Post

      I like the dance....
      Dear this is not filmy dance. This is google: dance. It makes you dance when ranking goes down.
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  • Profile picture of the author logodesigni
    My website ranks are also getting uos and down . I think it is also due to Google dancing. Can anyone suggest me what is the reason behind it and how much time it will take to stable my ranking
    ?
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  • Profile picture of the author sanjuk61
    Hi

    Google dance is temporary. If your on page optimization is well done and you are continuously trying to improve your offsite optimization by building quality links, your rankings should dance a lot less.....

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author IPexpress
    When building manual backlinks, would 20 per day be seen as to many??
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  • Profile picture of the author solarlight
    I have not experienced this...................
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  • Profile picture of the author stopper
    I have felt this dance before only that i never had the idea it was termed as a google dance. Am sponging up new terms every corner i check
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  • Profile picture of the author dinoseo
    Google Dance describes the period when the search engine is rebuilding its rankings. And because of this, the results may change for some days. It describes the period of those major index updates of the Google search engine are being tooled.

    Regards,
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  • Profile picture of the author charmi2008
    Don't do to much of Link building else you lost your time.
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  • Profile picture of the author kumar125
    Hello,
    Dear you can see many time on your website, your website ranking gone up and down then up and down that is the Google dance when your website ranking going up and down.
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  • Profile picture of the author Photofixations
    The real key is consistent white hat activities, Google freaks when it sees spikes in any activity. Also patience. Web site age is a really big factor these days with thousands of new websites coming on line daily. Hang in there.
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  • Profile picture of the author Elizbetm
    Its simply dancing because you have been "building a lot of links"
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  • Profile picture of the author aaron86
    Its just a Google dance my friend. Just keep on building high quality links in order to achieve higher quality in search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author CashBackID
    What was happened with mine is Google Dance will happen if you write article with another language or with another topics that contrary with homepage in language and topis. I have Dealer Pulsa Elektrik this is about pulsa, and with main language "Bahasa Indonesia" then I join at postlinks.com, SERP show that i lose rangking with term pulsa from rank 2 (page one) to rank 17 (page two). then i try to deleted all post from postlinks.com and i deleted this site from postlinks database. Alhamdulillaah... My ranking return. Alhamdulillaah...
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  • Profile picture of the author LucySands
    it can affect the other page, this happened to my site when I tried to push the new pages up the rankings as well

    Now I'm more into Hubpages and Squidoo...although for these communities, you really have to write a very good content in order to get good quality score
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  • Profile picture of the author zax
    basically the term *google dance* had not related to any kind of website pages
    all pages go through dances but different times.
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  • Profile picture of the author Harris ch
    The "Google Dance" is a term that refers to Google doing an algorithm update or a data refresh. It has nothing to do with what you are doing to your website, you have no control over it, there is nothing you can do to cause it or to prevent it. It's useful to be aware of it simply to prevent unnecessary worry or reaction.
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  • Profile picture of the author indiaseo121
    Google dance is a term which tells that your site is not stable in SERPs.Rank goes up and down,this may be due to updates made by Google so be updated with Google and follow its rules to be constant in SERPs.....
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  • Profile picture of the author gapinfotech
    Google Search (or Google Web Search) is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web,

    receiving several hundred million queries each day through its various services.

    The order of search results on Google's search-results pages is based, in part, on a priority rank called a "PageRank". Google Search provides many options for customized search, using Boolean operators such as: exclusion ("-xx"), alternatives ("xx OR yy"), and wildcard ("x * x").
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  • Profile picture of the author Lady Carole
    The Google Dance, that sounds funny. It's not funny when it happens to you, however. Personally I don't worry so much if I know I have good original content , an internal link structure, videos and images. You can get clicks from many other keywords that are in your website. Some of them you wouldn't even think of. If you are getting regular traffic and earning money from your site, it's good. Don't worry. Do your best and let it go. That's the way I do it. good luck, Carole
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  • Profile picture of the author nimonjo18
    In my experience there is nothing like google dance because google is changing daily. There is no longer a Google dance per se as serps tend to be updated constantly.
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  • Profile picture of the author nimonjo18
    No, There's not like google dance, Google is changing factors daily. There is no longer a Google "dance" per se as serps tend to be updated constantly.
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  • Profile picture of the author soweell
    When Google in updation so that's time it called dancing....
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  • Google dance is happened while algorithm change. We are not able to predict when it happened..
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  • Profile picture of the author waysmeans
    Google dance is fluctuation of the keyword ranking. In effect of this ranking get a huge difference in up/down position. But it for a short term and you will get back to your earlier ranking with in few days.
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  • Profile picture of the author steveproxy
    Make sure your site have not penalized by Big G
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  • Profile picture of the author nolanjayce5
    no i thinks that s not a Google dance... Google dance is that when keywords ranking fluctuate needlessly. Its might be tops level website go through it, no idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author mariuszc
    Google recently introduced an algorithm and a nice google dance is when it comes to performance in google.pl
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  • Profile picture of the author sudama88
    Hi,
    Google Dance is manily happened when your website getting indexing.
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  • Profile picture of the author amar92
    This is all new to me ...interesting info
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  • Profile picture of the author zettax
    What mean google dance?
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  • Profile picture of the author ManikaJain
    No one is sure about Google dance.I have 5-6 domain and one of them ranking are affected by google dance and i don't know why it occur only one of site even i though work same on all sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cloud Strike
    Google dance means the process which explains the changeability in the rank of website in Google SERP. This method is used by Google to rebuild the ranking of websites at a particular time.
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  • Profile picture of the author synapseindia
    Originally Posted by Kappa View Post

    I have a question. If I write a new article for my blog, and decide that I want to use backlinking on the inner page, does that usually cause the top level website to go through the "google dance" phenomenon?
    Google dance is a automated process. You will post the article interlinking to the inner pages. Google will give preference to the quality content. Just try to write good content.
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  • Profile picture of the author keronpollard
    even i faced Google dancing effect but I'm not safe side. none of my keywords gone
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    • Profile picture of the author Aarav
      If website get too much backlinks on particular keywords in very short time of periods then Google Dance situation occurs where website ranking dancing up and down for particular keywords.
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      • Profile picture of the author cwill184
        One of my sites is definitely experiencing fluctuations, but not over a week or so, it seems like every hour or so the page I am ranking for changes to page 2- 3 or even lower. I have checked it from a different computer and it doesn't even rank at all. Not experienced this level of fluctuation before. Should using a different computer terminal affect the serps results?
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  • Profile picture of the author The constantine
    As a portion of Google dance Google has two other net servers that can be used for browsing. For the duration of the webpage rank updates the search outcomes on individuals two will also see a adjust.
    Apart from the updation period, fluctuations may possibly at times arise in the search results but it ought to not be baffled with the Google dance. This is because of to Googles new crawl and it is acknowledged as Everflux.
    It can also be mentioned that Google dance is like a predetermination of when the genuine update will initiate.
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  • Profile picture of the author thassosisland0
    Yes for the new sites google dance matters a lot . Google dance struck to new sites frequently. To escape from google dance you have to gain quality backlinks.
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    It could be happen anytime.
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    • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
      Originally Posted by superman1231 View Post

      my website i think is currently dancing? i hope that it gains rank afterwards rather than lose ? do sites always gain afterwards?
      It's very possible that it will but it doesn't always happen.
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  • Profile picture of the author kumar125
    Google dance is the an updated ranking if your website rank daily up and down then this is called Google dance because your website ranking dance in the search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author Web Development
    When Google Algorithms Changes it affects all the pages either it is home page or inner page.....
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  • Profile picture of the author sham2
    Its google dance, it will settled after some time.
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  • Profile picture of the author indiainternet00
    I don't think this would lead to google dance . If you build good links i.e avoid spamming , i don't think google dance would affect your site to large extent. A bit up and down will occur but there won't be large difference .
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  • Profile picture of the author xtwistx
    That's why we all hate the google dance ^^
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  • Profile picture of the author Rickydiar
    yaa , Google dance badly affect SEO working n keyword ranking , is their any way to find when google dance.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ledux
    I got 3 backlinks from PR3,3 and 4 websites with the anchor text internet marketing and my site traffic dropped 300%. Is this normal, is this the so called Google dance? What should I do, build more backlinks or maybe ask to remove those links?

    I also got another blog which traffic was dropped really low after the first day of Google penguin. It has recovered for some time, then dropped then recovered and now the traffic is very low. Is this also the Google dance?
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  • Profile picture of the author vikashgiri
    Hello,
    Google dance is a biggest problem for all SEO expert because here are the many website ranking daily up and down this is Google dance.
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  • Profile picture of the author gifts12
    you can link your website one page to another page to get all the pages indexed by the google. But before that make large range of quality backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hardik Jogi
    Google Dance is always temp. Also do not focus only on google.
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  • Profile picture of the author charless
    I find that the google dance and sandboxing is only temporary if you built links naturally as opposed to spamming links.
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  • Profile picture of the author steveproxy
    My blog Facing Frequent (within 2 days) Fluctuation in ranking is this Google dance ?
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    • Profile picture of the author steveproxy
      Originally Posted by alluremedspa123 View Post

      fluctuations in rankings for new websites in the google index. Generally this is experienced by new sites or by sites that are building links too quickly.
      I need not worry about this fluctuation in search results?
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  • Profile picture of the author krobinson
    What a relief, I am sorry but its good to see that everyone is having the same problem which I am going through. It happened twice with me, but I didn't know what is it. Now I got it, its Google Dance. Thanks guys for the information. My website was doing good but suddenly the keywords vanished from the SERP's, I was so worried but after 20 days they came back. I really can understand how you are feeling, but it is right that you keep on building links for you website, you will definitely get good results.
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  • Profile picture of the author max4web
    Really bad Impact shown on your job.
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  • Profile picture of the author DeenaForiya
    get backlink from high pr site and continue update your site with fresh content improve your site ranking during google dance...
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  • Profile picture of the author stewardlega
    not going in deep , Google dance simple occurs when we create backlink but not on continuous basis. So i think creating a regular link will surely solve this problem..
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  • Profile picture of the author Jawlessx
    Google always looking for update. It is seeking perfection and trying to focus on quality business not on keywords or backlinks. That,s all. I think it's a continuous process.
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    • Profile picture of the author ajitam
      Originally Posted by Jawlessx View Post

      Google always looking for update. It is seeking perfection and trying to focus on quality business not on keywords or backlinks. That,s all. I think it's a continuous process.
      Agre. There are no keywords in the center of Google. They are doing on quality sites. If some site could offer what we are looking for, it will rank high.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoravi
    If you do relevant linking then it will not effect your website. Only put 1 or 2 link in an article post
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  • Profile picture of the author roozmarry871
    Google dance..?? what is..?
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  • Profile picture of the author robinwoods
    I am very shattered in these days from it...
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  • Profile picture of the author mediafirelab
    i love google dance
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  • Profile picture of the author michealburns
    We have many keywords ranking well on Google.. I hope it is not due to Google dance.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrjohn12
    I know a little bit about Google ranking . I am trying to get a good job online but cant get it because I don't know those works which are now in need . One of them is Google page ranking . But I don't know anything how to make a page high ranked in Google . So I want suggestions about this . Would you help me learning this .
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  • Profile picture of the author john8954
    But can any on tell what is google dance and why keywords are droping becasue of generation.
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  • Profile picture of the author cuc6216
    I just read your formation. I think, all SEOer should more note Google Dance. My site so very dangerous.
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  • Profile picture of the author saffroncurry
    Google Dance is one type of Google tool.I give you 1 example for that if your keyword is top 10 today and after two-three days it is not found in thousand its called Google Dance.Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author springonionboy232
    My site's been doing the "google dance" for the past few days now. Used a keyword rank tool to chck it's position yesterday and today and it'a apparently jumping around from page 10 to page 2! Not impressed at all google
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    • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
      Originally Posted by springonionboy232 View Post

      My site's been doing the "google dance" for the past few days now. Used a keyword rank tool to chck it's position yesterday and today and it'a apparently jumping around from page 10 to page 2! Not impressed at all google
      Just give them time, it'll work itself out
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  • Profile picture of the author sdlive
    i guess im next on the list. Google dance I HOPE just hit my site as of 9/28/12 1am pacific time. My traffic is down today... scary scary.. lets see what tomorrow brings

    And by the way.. i didn't receive any EMAILS from google about any penalization so that means, i got hit with Google Dance yes?
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  • Profile picture of the author densho
    How much time it will take until this google dance settles down? I have one website that is dancing over a month now.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoexperttools
    The dance can be as long as one month but if it takes more than that then it is not G dance but its brother, G sandbox ~
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  • Profile picture of the author travelsense103
    No problem, Don't worry
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  • Profile picture of the author spicyinfo
    i have problem to approve my account google adsen any idea ?
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  • Profile picture of the author OceanXian
    very insightful!
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  • Profile picture of the author eanritlaan
    My keyword dropped from 20 to 115 and stood there from the past week. My legs can't walk anymore :confused:
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    • Profile picture of the author densho
      My website danced alot for the last 3 weeks but now it settled down I hope beacause it's begining to gain upranking as days pass.
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  • Profile picture of the author suraj0123
    I also hate Google dancing .Google dance is Still happening.The Google Dance is common for SEO term to indicate the time when Google changes its ranking algorithm. For stopping at last
    we should do for stopping pretty much continuing do work as you are doing each monthly
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  • Profile picture of the author Tech2rogers1
    Google Dance is only described as the latest updations which google done in its algorithem changing. Its not affective in the result pages its like a note that what the google doing to take their algorithem changes..
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  • Profile picture of the author zohaib134
    I hate google dance! one of my sites was effected but fortunately i got through following experts guide
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  • Profile picture of the author eanritlaan
    Rise and fall I hate google dance :|
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  • Profile picture of the author micdi
    my blogs getting "google dance" to i cannot see my blogs in Search engine
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  • Profile picture of the author LouieDiaz
    Expect it to happen everytime google does an update. They've been constantly rolling out updates since September; starting off with the EMD - Panda then on the last week of September they rolled out the Penguin update. This week they've released yet another one which is the Top of the Fold update.
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  • Profile picture of the author GACS
    How can you tell if it's google dance or google removed your website?
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  • Profile picture of the author LouieDiaz
    one way to check if your site has been penalized by any of the algorithmic updates is to immediately check your incoming traffic a few days after the dates of its release.
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  • Profile picture of the author bhushan@rancor
    Don't afraid about this.It all define by your work and checked by google that how much white hat techniques are you using..
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  • Profile picture of the author aroondlk
    can anyone explain about google dance
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    • Profile picture of the author Saifi Rizvi
      Originally Posted by aroondlk View Post

      can anyone explain about google dance

      Well approximately once a month, Google revise their index by recalculating the Pageranks of each of the web pages that they have crawled. The time span throughout the revise is known as the Google dance. Google dance is the sudden changes of your Google ranking.
      for example, you are in top 10 today, then tomorrow it became on top 45, then top 12, then top 30... it means that your ranking is not stable yet.
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      • Profile picture of the author expertsindia
        Google dance is the period when Google is rebuilding its rankings, and results fluctuate widely for a 3 to 5 day period. We can say, this is when Google updates its entire database of websites, which usually occurs at the end of each month. It is called a dance because there can be a dramatic shift in the rankings as Google updates some sites as being more relevant than others.

        The name "Google Dance" was in the past used to describe the period that a major index update of the Google search engine are being implemented. These major Google index update occurred on average every 36 days or 10 times per year. It was easiest be identified by significant changes in search results, and by an updating of Google's cache of all indexed pages. These changes would be evident from one minute to the next.

        Google Dance is a phenomenon in which fluctuation is seen in Google Ranking of a specific page. This fluctuation is caused by abrupt and highly secret changes made in Searching/Indexing algorithms by Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author GACS
    Did some more research on google dance vs. sandbox or deindex.

    If you google search your own domain and your website comes up, it is most likely google dance and your website had a lot of unusual link building activity recently.
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  • Profile picture of the author ColouredRice
    Don't worry too much about it, just keep tracking it with some keyword tracker (I use SerpFox). There's been a lot of Google updates recently so expect it to "dance" for awhile. I've been gaining 50+ positions and losing it in the same day. Might as well just let it sit for awhile and continue to build links and see where it goes.
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  • Profile picture of the author suraj0123
    The dance is being shifted down before you suddenly pop up about. just keep on doing Blog comments, social bookmarking , and building links SEE you will get ranking in SERP again...
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  • Profile picture of the author sanjaytrch
    As we find the Google is updating new algorithms day by day from Feb, 2011. The main aims to give relevant and informative post or results to users in search engines....We cannot control over it..but we can prevent from it by not involve in spamming and duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author CyborgX
    To see sites go back and forth like that has to be throwing up a lot of backlinks with software and when you do that some of the backlinks stay and some are dropped out of the link graph which will cause a dance in Google, which why would want to build the links gradually over a period of time. I notice it all the time when I change my links to a different keyword, I know that the keyword will fall back for a period of time, but I keep building links naturally and then the keyword jumps back to where it was, then I use every method to maintain stability of the keyword in the top positions.
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  • Profile picture of the author Counter for site
    Well i too think we don't have any control on Google dance and such kind of proctice doesn't effect.If your site is going to effect by Google then it will be whether you use this technique or not.So i don't think you need to worry on this.Try to build high quality backlinks and don't forget to maintain your quality content.High quality content sites are less effected by Google updates.
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  • Profile picture of the author wtlok
    I thinks it not affected other pages
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  • Profile picture of the author betsyanne
    I had not heard about this until today, but I will not give up! I have a lot to learn about SEO, and this thread has helped! Thanks, everyone.
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  • Profile picture of the author brenridley
    I guess we danced today. I went form page 2 to 16. I'll wait and hope it comes back. It usually will. It is aggravating because you never know if it is something you did that google didn't like.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasmine12
    If your keyword ranking drop and up at same day it means Google Dance
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    • Profile picture of the author hondablaster
      Did anyone notice some serious google dance today. I am hoping I am not the only one. I am not sure if its a dance or a penalty yes as I keep dropping off. I monitor several keywords for my domain and different keywords in a different niche on 3 different unrelated websites that I have no affiliation with.

      They also had some really strange drops I am hoping someone can confirm the hardcore serp drops I experienced today.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesnixon487
    The keyword position when update is going in Google normally known as Google Dance.
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  • Profile picture of the author sanusense
    On recent panda update my blog got effected by Google dance or Sandboxed, Because it was on Google Page 1 and now it is on 400th page. So, it could be possible of interlinking.
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    • Profile picture of the author alanross
      There is no need to fear the google dance, it means google has taken an interest in your site, so it is now bouncing it around the serps, trying to decide where to put you. You will be on page 10 one day, 290 the next etc. When the dance finally settles, within a few weeks your position will be higher in the serps than before.
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  • Profile picture of the author zubizubi
    I have a one year old website which was suffered by Google Dance upto a period of 1 month.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adamw
    The Google dance seems to be happening a lot more these days. If your site takes a ranking plunge, don't worry. As long as you keep building quality backlinks it will come back. Best to water down the on page optimisation if you get sandboxed. You don't want to look like you've keyword stuffed your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jonty Howe
      Originally Posted by Adamw View Post

      The Google dance seems to be happening a lot more these days. If your site takes a ranking plunge, don't worry. As long as you keep building quality backlinks it will come back. Best to water down the on page optimisation if you get sandboxed. You don't want to look like you've keyword stuffed your site.
      Sorry Adam I'm fairly new at this. I'm not quite sure I know exactly what you mean by 'sandboxed'. I've seen a significant drop in ranking across several keywords.

      I have been building content and links over the last couple of months and experienced a slow climb to what I felt were fairly decent local rankings. I have dropped hugely in some keywords. Some I no longer seem to be ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Swapnil7
    Every Website or Web pages suffer from Google Dance as Google always keeps on moving the sites according to the ranking criteria set by them. Only one of my sites keywords appear in top 10 SERPs but still remain fluctuating between 1-10 so dance is a common phenomenon.
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  • Profile picture of the author vmtactics
    If you targeting inner page it will not affect. I am sure about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author muzz
    Google could be dance any time our websites and pages face google dance in different timing.
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  • Profile picture of the author shipwrecked
    I think I am getting bigger than usual bandwidth usage metrics on days when my site gets heavily crawled... Google dance comes afterwards, in general.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesseoservice
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  • Profile picture of the author eternalsongbird
    Almost same kind of problem happen to me again and again. They get fixed automatically. No worry.
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  • Profile picture of the author gineen
    How do you know if you've been sandboxed or if it's just dancing?
    My traffic has been hovering at or around 300 clicks per day. Then it fell to about 25. It stayed there for a week then it went back to where it was for about a week. Then it dropped off to 25 per day....
    Any guesses?
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  • Profile picture of the author Avian Media
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  • Profile picture of the author joewalter
    google dance is will vibration our heart very much some time positive some time negative... but it wont penalize at all
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  • Profile picture of the author muzz
    I think that link will help you and I found this article very good about Google dance.
    The Return Of The Google Dance
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  • Profile picture of the author shonny
    I think the best thing is not to worry so much about Google Dance provided you are doing the right thing. You might get affected initially for a short time but in the end, it will be of much benefit.
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  • Profile picture of the author spiderwire29
    I feel you guys about the Google Dance I ranked for 3 or 4 keywords and then they are now gone and it sucks!!! LOL
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  • Profile picture of the author LouieDiaz
    rankings are dancing yet again today. Clearly shows that google is rolling out another algorithm update.
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  • Profile picture of the author tanveerhabib
    Me too also suffering from Google dance. Some time on top some time not on page.
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    • Profile picture of the author harry911
      Originally Posted by magestore View Post

      Thankfully, today the rank returns to 10th
      Google dance is mysterious
      Google dance is an indication that Google is recalculating your site's relevance to a particular keyword. Don't be afraid of Google dance and stop doing what you were previously doing. If you were building links, then keep building links with a decent velocity. Eventually your ranking will stabilize when Google is done calculating.
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  • Profile picture of the author bhuvananichi
    Your website oscillation in the google search page is called google dancing.
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  • Profile picture of the author torrao
    Thanx for nice information, i was after this topic
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  • Profile picture of the author upendraets
    When your backlink dropped then Google flactuate your keyword rank in google SERP . this flactuation is called the Google Dance .

    for preventing this improve your backlink hurry
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  • Profile picture of the author jasmin007
    Hate google dance my website from 9th position to 154 and now disappear and found no where, even no warring or notification is appear by the webmaster.
    WTF google is doing? any suggestion to get my website back?
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  • Profile picture of the author namesbeyond
    Google dance is nothing but higher and lower ranking in the search results. By doing This google updates its own server every month.
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  • Profile picture of the author SamQualinsoft
    Hi Warriorforums Friends,
    I am Sam working as a seo analyst, since 2 months i am unable to compete my task as my websites keywords traffic is completely fluctuating from top 10 to 60 for the old sites at the same time i am monitoring my team to build backlinks from high page rank site with niche webistes but still the problem is unsolved "Google Dance".I kindly request warriorforums friend to guide me to keep constant keywords traffic positions on google.........

    Thanks
    With Regards
    Sam
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    • Profile picture of the author susann22
      @SamQualinsoft, top10 - 60 position fluctuation is awfull. I have a similar problem with one of my site... can anybody help?
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  • Profile picture of the author ricoramiro
    As far as I know, Google doesn't look at entire websites. It looks at each individual web page on your site.

    If a lot of your pages violate any of Google's rules, then your entire website may get penalized.
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  • Profile picture of the author supereek
    I experianced the Google Dance today.

    my website was ranked as result #5 for my keyword. this afternoon it was suddenly #3.
    Now like 10 hours later its back to #5. I have no idea why this happens but as long as i don't loose rank i am OK with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author saloni
    it is happening these days for my sites too. google is not fixing site rankings. it is showing random rank for same blog for diff. diff. time or days. its difficult to take decisions for SEO... :-(
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    • Profile picture of the author namesbeyond
      Originally Posted by saloni View Post

      it is happening these days for my sites too. google is not fixing site rankings. it is showing random rank for same blog for diff. diff. time or days. its difficult to take decisions for SEO... :-(
      Google will fix the rank for the keyword, it happening due to google dance, (ie) google are making some changes or some updation to their algorithm.
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  • Profile picture of the author bewennick
    Originally Posted by dburk View Post

    Hi Kappa,

    The "Google Dance" is a term that refers to Google doing an algorithm update or a data refresh. It has nothing to do with what you are doing to your website, you have no control over it, there is nothing you can do to cause it or to prevent it. It's useful to be aware of it simply to prevent unnecessary worry or reaction.
    I am totally agree with this statement and its not a permanent phenomenon . I am currently facing the same problem my keywords got disappeared from the Google search results. but i am now creating the link from HIGH PR . hope it will come back soon again on Google results.
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  • Profile picture of the author apartridge7
    From my experience when i first launched my website I was link building at quite a large rate but now have slowed right down. I have found that my rankings have dropped off. You have to continuously build links at the same rate.
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  • Profile picture of the author smik778
    My Keyword was shown on 10th position first page but today it has been drop down to 614th position

    What is going on with google ranking and how to get back position ?

    Valuable replies will be highly appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author adystanley
    Hello, i have one question about Google Dance.
    It can appear if i post about 3-4 articles per day for one month?
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