Why did keyword ranking go from 26th to 52nd to 23rd to 82nd position in google?

by boafinancial

Posted: 13 years ago 26 replies

I have been building links to my site since November last year. My site is 1year and 9 months old. My keyword rankings in google have been fluctuating in positions since December 20, 2011. I stopped building links for the past 6 weeks, serps were still fluctuating but not as much as before.

I started building links on Friday the 16th of March 2012 and the keywords that I targeted have decreased in rankings from 26th to 82nd, 69th to 135th and 68th to 105th position in goolge.

I have built enough quality back links to rank some of my keywords on 1st page on goolge but my site has been dancing for 3 months now, would it ever settle down and if so, when?

#23rd #26th #52nd #82nd #google #google dance #keyword #keyword ranking #position #ranking #serp

nik0 Banned 13 years ago

Your site is dancing, that mostly happens when you build a lot of strong links, Google is now deciding where to put you, don't worry, just give it a week or so.
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- Shaolinsteve 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by nik0
  
  Your site is dancing, that mostly happens when you build a lot of strong links, Google is now deciding where to put you, don't worry, just give it a week or so.
  
  Sums it up
  
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- MikeFriedman 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by nik0
  
  Your site is dancing, that mostly happens when you build a lot of strong links, Google is now deciding where to put you, don't worry, just give it a week or so.
  
  Actually, it is the opposite. It happens when you build a lot of ****ty links.
  
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  nik0 Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MikeFriedman
  
  Actually, it is the opposite. It happens when you build a lot of ****ty links.
  
  I build quality article backlinks mainly at high PR society, and it tends to make rankings dance pretty heavily sometimes, even back to page 9, but it always ends up with getting higher results. Recently I had a keyword at #23, it danced to page5, page 9 etc. now it's at #21 (pretty tough kw btw).
  
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  MikeFriedman 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by nik0
  
  I build quality article backlinks mainly at high PR society, and it tends to make rankings dance pretty heavily sometimes,
  
  Then we just have a difference of opinion on quality backlinks.
  
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  nik0 Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MikeFriedman
  
  Then we just have a difference of opinion on quality backlinks.
  
  Yeah I agree with that.
  
  It's hard to offer quality backlinks in a one time fee package, cause most quality backlinks require a monthly payment or a ton of work involved emailing webmasters / offering guest posts / writing guest posts, the prices can't cover that kind of work. So these high PR society posts are about as good as it gets.
  
  It's kinda hard to compete with people who offer high quality backlinks in the form of dofollow blog comments or memberprofiles at PR6 domains
  
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  avarice 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MikeFriedman
  
  Actually, it is the opposite. It happens when you build a lot of ****ty links.
  
  My thoughts exactly.
  
  Can you give us your URL or service you've been using to build links? Then we can explain the fluctuations better.
  
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bhq 13 years ago

Google dance
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JSProjects 13 years ago

Dancing. If the backlinks are good you should settle stronger than you were originally.
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Michel Modo 13 years ago

I have used to increase back links
It helped me a lot
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sahildd 13 years ago

i think its Google dance plz don't stop the work and get some quality backlinks
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david87 13 years ago

I think this is usual case for every link builder so don't be panic and keep continue with your quality link building work. Quality link building will help you to get your keywords ranking back.
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SASA Techno 13 years ago

Yes Google dance your working is daily bases work and different kind of working so this is helpful to you.
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sureshtechendeavour 13 years ago

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eurekapsycrille

13 years ago

Maybe there's a conflict on how you define quality backlinks than Google does. Visit Google Webmaster Guidelines and review their criteria in judging the quality of a link.

Remember, Google dance can sometimes define the quality of your backlinks, the stronger the fluctuation, the weaker your site's backlinks are (mostly).

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thenativetranslator

13 years ago

Originally Posted by eurekapsycrille

Yes I admit. Maybe the links that you consider quality backlinks for your website, Google is not doing the same. So try to be very sure about your sources of backlinks!

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C Rebecca 13 years ago

The most probable reason for the drop could be stale content.
It could be some penalty as well.

Here is Matt Cutts telling the most possible reason for the drop in SERP rankings... Check this out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=gx04qNrCbnk
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nik0 Banned 13 years ago

All I can add is that with xrumer and scrapebox blasts my site never danced, meaning it dropped like a brick in the ocean.
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glock67 13 years ago

just keep building quality backlinks and you should end up at a better position than you started
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patco 13 years ago

Try to get some high quality do-follow backlinks using your main keyword.. And, don't worry about your ranking, Google will "update" it very soon, give it a week or two and your ranking will be back.. But, don't stop building backlinks constantly!
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kbs 13 years ago

I was starting to freak out as well. In Feb, my visitor count was around 200/day, now it's dropped to about 15/ day. Hope it's just the Google dance.
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retsek 13 years ago

Another possibility.

-50 penalty/filter.
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- yukon Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by retsek
  
  Another possibility.
  
  -50 penalty/filter.
  
  Is that anything like a -100 penalty.
  
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kannikuku 13 years ago

dont stop link building , try to make 10-15 quality backlinks in a month. Definitely google will up your website.
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- paulgl 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kannikuku
  
  dont stop link building , try to make 10-15 quality backlinks in a month. Definitely google will up your website.
  
  15 is very, very slow.
  
  And are you an employee of google so you know for sure 15 links
  will up you on google?
  
  And if your site goes back up, does that mean you contribute
  to the "penalty" of another site that gets dropped?
  
  Sites below yours now must have suffered a double-secret penalty.
  
  Pity the site at 500. Poor sap suffered a lot.
  
  Real penalty is a deindex. Shuffling and reshuffling of search results
  is just that.
  
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orpaz191 13 years ago

1. don't change your linking velocity according to the serp movement. Keep it steady.

2. build second layer on your links to make the "quality links". that will stabilize your site.
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