I noticed an fairly good increase on one of my sites. almost all traffic on that site comes from Yahoo (Google seems to fairly much ignore it).
Because of most traffic coming from Y!, I also noticed another weird thing. It seems my rankings are going up and down with fairly regular intervals. If I look at a specific keyword in my logs, sometimes this word ranks #2 but a few days later it is nowhere to be found. This cycle seems to happen about every 2 weeks or so. This triggered a thought and I was hopnig for some feedback on this; Would search engines (and searchers) benefit from SERPS that cycle ? It always seemed unfair to me that the big sites, for the important keywords ALWAYS show up high, while new comers struggle to get a good ranking. This is not good news for searchers as the old boys are often much more expensive then newcomers (I'm refering to markets like domain name registration now.. Networksolutions - $35/y - we $7.95/y - but they have been around for years. I'd rather find me !). That system of almost static listings makes the big boys richer and the choice for the searcher smaller.
How about an algo that cycles through a selection of good quality sites ? Everyone is then better off (except the big boys but they can handle it). The cycles would mean that someone now ranking on page 4 would next week rank on page 1 for a few days at least ?
Any thoughts ?
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