If you have a web site out there, you may have found that its ranking dances around the last few weeks and even the PagrRank dances on you. This is one of those famous Googe Dances. Maybe we should give them names like we do hurricanes and even a category rating. This dance one is a category 5 and is a result of Google trying hard to get those people spamming their engines out of there or down the list. This dance is called Jagger, and is actually a three-phrase dance. It should continue until about mid-November.
We first noticed it when one of our pages had a gray bar on the toolbar for PageRank. (You have to download this free toolbar from http://toolbar.google.com). That generally is a message that you’ve been spamming the engine and the page is banned. It can also mean, however, that the page hasn’t been crawled yet. We hit the panic button with emails to Google – all to no avail. Maybe some of those guys that transferred to Google from Microsoft were having some fun. I don’t think so. The Microsoft MSN search engine had a PageRank of 2 in Google.
You best bet if you see this happening on your site is:
- Be sure your aren’t spamming the Google engine. No hidden text (text the same color as the background or in a very tiny font)
- Build up your external links. If you don’t have those external links and all the links are internal, the dance will drop your ranking
- Wait it out. Our page came back normal after a few days.
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Here’s more scoop from Google on how to report problems during the dance:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/update-jagger-contacting-google/
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