Why is my website so volatile on google?

[618]

Hello. Thanks in advance for your responses. My website is http://www.resolvedhypnotherapy.co.uk. I released it back in October. It is well optimised in terms of key words, is regularly updated with new content and I'm building links. Now, if it were static I could understand that things take a long time to progress. I've read a lot of SEO stuff and I hear it's more a marathon than a race. What I don't understand is why it has plummeted ten pages in the previous 24 hours. It's not penalised by google. I do nothing of a "black hat" nature. No weak sites have linked to mine. All I have done is add content of the normal nature.

Is this normal in a young site? Should I be worried? Until yesterday it was making slow progress through the ranks. Now it seems to be free-falling...

Thanks, again, for any suggestions.

Paul

[Jake]

It's still a pretty young site in search ranking terms, people talk of the Google Dance, when they introduce some algorithm change ranking positions can shuffle around for a time. You didn't mention if this drop is just for your primary keyword or multiple keywords. I didn't see obvious reasons why a Panda filter pass or human review would shake your ranking. If you were using Google's paid Adwords system they would want to see a terms and conditions as sell as a privacy link to gain the best quality score.

Load speed is a factor, maybe your hot was down on last spidering, on my second access it felt like over 10 seconds load time, be sure you have a wordpress cache installed.

Be sure you are using a search rank checker to monitor your position for a list of important keywords you can identify with the Google Keyword Tool.

Use either the free rankchecker for firefox http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/ to generate a search ranking report for the list of keywords, the latter has some other analysis functions.

Unfortunately the Open Site Explorer hasn't indexed your backlinks as yet.

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?si...rapy.co.uk


I trust you have a vitally important Google Places page (and the Yahoo counterpart)

Try a Google search for: hypnotherapy, oxford

The A-G lettered stick pins symbols are places listings, see the additional info rolling on the >> symbol brings up, these don't look well developed, you should see stars from client reviews and photos rolling over >>. There are ranking methods to get a places page on results page 1, mainly reviews and citations non many other directories.

[James]

It' always harder when the site is new i've had a nightmare trying to get ranked.
I got a dvd off amazon that helped me understand building links through writing articles etc
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005H0NYBU
Prob worth a look

another would be matt carters seo academy