Why My Site is Ranked for Few Hours on Daily Basis in Google SERPs
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We have observed Google is shuffling our ranking on daily basis for our website: www.strokesexhibits.com, which is annoying. Almost on daily basis, in evening hours we are in ranking against almost every keyword for few hours (roughly 6-12 hours) but in the morning hours we are back to 50+ to 100+ positions.
This is not happening with our domain only but facing same issue with the Google plus pages and few articles which we have on some high authority sites are behaving in same way.
For better understanding, please have a look on following stats (Evening Screenshots were recorded yesterday after 8:00 PM, Morning screenshots were recorded after 9.30 AM - GMT +4 Time Zone).
all following results are related with google.ae
Keyword: Exhibition Stand
Evening:
2 Google plus posts are in ranking + One main website page is ranking.
Position 2: http://screencast.com/t/Yf2SLQNRJEm
Position 4, 6: http://screencast.com/t/sDs2nShaAGr2
Morning:
Google Plus pages disappeared + Different main website page is in ranking in back pages.
Position 87: http://screencast.com/t/XT8hCEmOY
Keyword: Exhibition stands
Evening:
2 Google Plus posts are in ranking + One main website page
Position 2,3,6: http://screencast.com/t/kF3PaVtwWe
Morning:
All above pages disappeared from ranking & new pages appeared in back pages.
Position 75: http://screencast.com/t/nMTEWJlT
Keyword: Exhibition stand design
Evening:
2 Google Plus & one main website page is in ranking
Position 4,5: http://screencast.com/t/ENUg4Do4i
Position 78: http://screencast.com/t/xf8NeMzH
Morning:
Above pages disappeared and 2 new pages got ranking in back pages.
Position 72, 73: http://screencast.com/t/1VidK4cx
Keyword: Exhibition companies in dubai
Evening:
2 Google Plus pages are on first page + Home page of website on back pages.
Position 4: http://screencast.com/t/F3ljdakI3bU
Position 8: http://screencast.com/t/evuDLuuL
Position 70: http://screencast.com/t/xQ24Mdm9DV
Morning:
Home page dropped 11 positions + google plus disappeared
Position 81: http://screencast.com/t/FD1IxnqL
Keyword: Exhibition stand fabrication:
Evening:
2 main website + 2 google plus + 1 second brand site + 1 third party website + 1 youtube link – all related to us are in ranking
Position 1,2: http://screencast.com/t/kZACVnUS1yG
Position: 4,5,7: http://screencast.com/t/JyAKX2bv66t
Position 11,12: http://screencast.com/t/2CdJMMHB8
Morning:
One page lost by position 1 + One page disappeared and new page appeared in ranking + google plus disappeared + youtube gained ranking of 2 positions + 3rd party link also gained ranking by 3 positions.
Position 2, 4: http://screencast.com/t/JwJfa0Je
Position 8, 10: http://screencast.com/t/wHup3X6Isu
Keyword: Exhibition stand contractor
Evening:
2 Google plus links + One main website link on back pages.
Position 4,6: http://screencast.com/t/bMJlI7cco
Position 100: http://screencast.com/t/twBOwFbR
Morning:
Google plus disappeared + main website page still on back pages & gained 2 positions.
Position 98: http://screencast.com/t/tMXHmkiQWFE
Keyword: Exhibition stand installation
Evening:
2 main website + one Google plus is in ranking
Position 2,4,5: http://screencast.com/t/GfyXZn19
Morning:
All 3 pages disappeared & new single page is in ranking
Position 3: http://screencast.com/t/i0fdgZvVZwUk
Any Suggestion???
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I have the same problem!!!
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Sounds like a plan, Gilson!
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Thank you Miriam, let me record them on daily basis.
So, we will have enough data for the better analysis.
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Hi Gilson,
As a test, I would suggest that you monitor the entire first page of Google for your core keyword over the next week and see if your competitors are also experiencing this fluctuation, or if it is only your website. One way to do this might be to take screenshots each day in the morning and the evening and then you can line them up after a week and compare them to see if the fluctuation is specific to you or if Google is changing up the whole result set. -
After noticing such thing, I have checked via different PCs, different net connections but same thing. Time & tenure of ranking is not fixed. In general, site is getting ranking once for couple of hours with in 24 hours.
Our site was attacked by some pharma links, after removing those, we are getting this issue.
If you can find anything missed in our on-page seo, please also suggest.
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Hi Gilson,
I don't have an immediate answer for you, but I do have a quick question. Are you checking all of these results from the same computer all day long, or are these from different computers, mobile devices, etc?
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