Hero to zero

[lukeeales]

My site was ranked #1 on google.co.uk and #20 on google.com for a keyword.

Now, I'm not in the top 1,000 for either.

Does google often have blips like this? Because my traffic is suffering..

[Acro]

Yes, google danced again Feb 1st.

[Togoodhlth]

Yep, happened to me too. Had a site in the top 10 on average and then it is now not listed in google.
This is why a lot of people dont like them. You get a really good listing and in some cases people build their entire business around their listing and traffic, buy more inventory, hire more staff based on increased sales and maybe even rent space or buy a warehouse and bam everything changes and now they have to start over.

[RMF]

Yeah, my site went from top 10 for most of my keywords to 500+ after the dec17 update. They started coming back on feb3, but it keeps flopping up and down. One minute my sites there, next its not. It seems like a lot of people are experiencing these problems.

[lz83ny]

I think the rotation is quite funny, eveybody can get their 15 minutes of fame on google. Thank you google

[BLazeD]

Same for me. I think it is still dancing...

[lukeeales]

If that is the case, then surely SEO is pointless. How can you be good one moment, and crap the next?

[Zinc]

My site was ranked #1 on google.co.uk and #20 on google.com for a keyword.

Now, I'm not in the top 1,000 for either.

Does google often have blips like this? Because my traffic is suffering..

One of my sites was ranked in the top 5 for many keywords, some keywords/phrases were at 1st position (after a whole year of SEO) and could be found using around 950 keyword combos, I noticed a significant drop-off at the beginning of December '04 when my main site dropped 150 places and is now only found for 250 keywords - Thank you Mr Google, the search engine which is constantly redefining the word 'relevancy' and what it actually means.

You'll find that where page 'content' was once king and 'backlinks' were queen, the position is now reversed. If you approach webmasters with a view to a reciprocal link exchange, make sure the content is quality and related to your own content - otherwise it won't count for diddly squat.