Comments on: Examining a Search Ranking Fluctuation

By: BigSten

BigSten — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:12:29 +0000

By: Sphinn Weekly - Week 5 | The Sphinn Blog

Sphinn Weekly - Week 5 | The Sphinn Blog — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:47:34 +0000

[...] 5th August – Examining a Search Ranking Fluctuation (vangogh) XMCP list a number of factors that Google most likely considers when ranking a page/site or detecting spam. Direct Link: SlightlyShadySEO [...]

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De interessantste SEO artikelen van deze week | echthelder.nl — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:17:16 +0000

[...] Vandaag op positie 5, morgen op positie 2: fluctuaties van zoekresultaten Algoritmes van zoekmachines worden met enige regelmaat veranderd. Slightlyshadyseo geeft een gedetailleerde inkijk in de mogelijke redenen waarom zoekresultaten fluctueren. Een interessante inkijk in de mogelijke factoren van de algoritmes. slightlyshadyseo.com/index.php/examining-a-search-ranking-fluctuation/ [...]

By: Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:48:02 +0000

Oh, and temporal link analysis is being used, as shown by Branko, aka neyne, aka SEO Scientist: http://www.seo-scientist.com/unconventional-link-attributes.html

By: Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:46:15 +0000

Appreciate the link X – though when I saw the referrer, and read the first line, thought it might be to my latest bit of research. A site I own, plain html, got indexed with no links or submission. It was temporarily not on private whois and the email was one associated with other trusted sites I own. I’m betting that’s how it got indexed.

seoroi.com/case-studies/seo-research-indexed-with-no-links-or-submission/

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Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:56:28 +0000

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By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:40:05 +0000

Recently had to break this down for a client as well:

Rankings are in everflx more than ever…hey that sounds weird. Meaning the ranking constantly seem to be moving around for many 2-3 keyword phrases. So when these reports run, FD could be ranking #3 for “police sunglasses” and then when you check Google live we are ranked #9. There are many reason for that:

a. Google uses tens of thousands of datacenters. At anytime you could be accessing a different one because of load balancing. So what you check today could be different than tomorrow. What your mom in California checks the same you check in Texas can also be different because you are both using different datacenters. Google is also known to test different algorithms on different datacenters at anytime during the month. This makes the change even harder to pin down because you never know when or why they are doing it.

b. Geo-location also makes a difference. Even if your mom in California is using the same datacenter as you in Texas you can see different results because Google is trying to further “personalize” the search results to your location. They feel this is best for queries that are possibly effected by localization. Take searching for “plumbers” for instance. If you search for a plumber in California you probably don’t want to see plumbers from Texas in your SERPs. Google is becoming more transparent about this of late testing a new feature in the SERPs that you can read about here: http://searchengineland.com/080730-163351.php

c. Google Personalization can affect your SERPs when you are logged into your Google account. They can take any number of demographic items from your personal data to make the SERPs more customized to who you are.

d. Lastly Google Universal Search has probably changed the SERP landscape the most. With the addition of Related Searches, Google News, Images, Video, Blog Posts in the SERP landscape one would wonder how much room is left for those 10 spots per page.

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:18:00 +0000

Examining a Search Ranking Fluctuation : Slightly Shady SEO…

Examining a Search Ranking Fluctuation…

By: Traffic2MyPage.com

Traffic2MyPage.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:21:52 +0000

i have to comment on my own site… your last point about internal areas of emphasis… my site moved from no where in the ranking to number 30 with adjustments to these elements in an decently competitive keyword

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:17:50 +0000

Now that is a great post. I’ve always thought about the algorithms detecting CMS installations and that having an effect on rankings and IPs! that just scares me right now.