My Google ranking changing by the hour

mariobox · 01-16-2005, 10:45 AM

During the last six months, my home page: accordmarketing.com/tid/ has been ranking #3 or #4 in Google for keyphrase Internet Marketing Tips. However, in these last few days my ranking randomly changes from #3 or #4 to #64 or #65. This switch occurs several times a day. My hunch is that Google is using different servers and switching from one to the other randomly. The question then is, why am I #3 or #4 in one server and #64 or #65 in another. Interestingly enough, all the other results in the first SERP seems to remain the same, only my page changes.

My site is not new, has a PR of 5 (PR6 before the last update) and has been in Google for almost 2 years. I'm not losing any sleep over this, since most of my SE traffic comes from internal pages, but it would be interesting to understand what's going on.

Thanks,
Mario
The Internet Digest
http://www.theinternetdigest.net

Johan007 · 01-16-2005, 03:09 PM

I get this "switch" in the UK once before lunch and one after lunch.

ATLien · 01-20-2005, 11:03 PM

I see this happen alot. It is happening right now. I am normally Top 10 for "linkin Park" but as I am typing this, I have completely dissappeared out of all 6 million results.

SVB · 01-21-2005, 06:01 AM

I have moved up to #127 out of 14,300,000 for "psp".
Had a good effect too, record number of uniques in last couple of days.
Hopefully will continue to move up over next couple of months

sundancerz · 01-21-2005, 10:38 AM

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Had a good effect too, record number of uniques in last couple of days.

It's not from a result in # 127

SVB · 01-21-2005, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by sundancerz

It's not from a result in # 127

I'm not specifically referring to the 127th result. I mentioned that because from absolutely nowhere out of 14 million results, the site now appears on page 10. And thats without me starting to actually try to get higher rankings in Google yet. There are other results higher up, but not for the term "psp", for less used terms like "psp forum". But past few days Ive found all my rankings in the serps of my top 4 engines to be higher, and at the same time, record uniques (it is not a popular site, but 500 uniques a day is not too bad for a site about a console that isnt even released in USA or Europe yet).

sundancerz · 01-21-2005, 11:45 AM

no problem, just wanted to make sure you didn't think they were coming from that result.