Varying keyword position

[hunnam]

Over the past few weeks my website has been jumping between position for a certain keyword, I checked at 09:00 and it was at #4 and then at 09:05 and it was at #9, so I checked again a few minutes later and it went from #9-#13-#4-#17-#8-#44 all within 2 hours.

The keyword is North East England and my site is northeastengland.org, I just cannot understand why its jumping so much as the keyword isnt that sought after.

[WebsiteTraders.Com]

try getting a powerful backlink from an authority website.........that should help stabilise the fluctuations

[Cap Loko]

I have the same situation, a 2-keyword domain that is not sought after that much.
Last week landend on the first page of google out of nothing. After that in a couple of hours some fluctuations between #1 to #5.
One thing i shouldn't have done is to click on it so often. Google record this as 'the user didnt find anything interesting on this page' and takes this into account.

[mike031]

the google index updates many times per day...... you just have to let time do it's thing.

if you are still having problems a few month's into a project, that means that your site is really missing something.... most likely relevant text links or enough content.

[Banned: WL_Marketing]

Originally Posted by hunnam

Over the past few weeks my website has been jumping between position for a certain keyword, I checked at 09:00 and it was at #4 and then at 09:05 and it was at #9, so I checked again a few minutes later and it went from #9-#13-#4-#17-#8-#44 all within 2 hours.

The keyword is North East England and my site is northeastengland.org, I just cannot understand why its jumping so much as the keyword isnt that sought after.

It depends on which datacenter you hit.. so it's kind of random