Scratching my head something weird on yahoo search!!!

yowow · #1 (**permalink**) 12-05-2004, 02:10 AM

I was at my sister home today in the afternoon and they have sbc dsl. I did a search on certain keywords for my website at around 5:00 p.m. today. Whola my website is listed on top postion #1 on yahoo on several keyword not only 1. I was excited and jumping up and down :). It was just yesterday i checked my position and i was at 103 position so ofcourse i was happy to be #1.
Now is around 11:55 p.m. here at my home using my parent dail up but now i am NOT listed on top position for same keyword. The result are completely different and somewhat similar to old result. I don't know but is yahoo playing games with my eyes. Why the up and down in results!!!!

tcampione · #2 (**permalink**) 12-05-2004, 01:11 PM

This has happened to me at least 4 times. I jumped from #75 to #1. Stayed a few days and sent to #62. Each time, I've wound up in a better position, and I am steadily moving higher.

But, I've found no one who knows why this happens. Others here have reported the same thing.

**brian.mark** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-06-2004, 01:15 AM

All of the pages we've spent time optimizing have seen some fluctuation as well. We've gone from 1 - 4, then back to 2, then down to 5, then back to 1. We don't usually drop out of the top 5, but we see fluctuations, sometimes hourly.

RadarCat · #4 (**permalink**) 03-03-2005, 06:08 AM

Maybe you are seeing your results at a particular point in time during a "Bubble Sort" or "Quick Sort" or similar sorting routine.

gigigib · #5 (**permalink**) 03-03-2005, 10:27 AM

What's happening?? I checked Yahoo yesterday with my main keyword phrase and came up #10. I just checked today and I'm #62!

yowow · #6 (**permalink**) 03-03-2005, 06:22 PM

update 03/03/05
ok after long time i went to my sis place. Again same result i was ranking top within 10 for many keywords.
But than i went back home and did a search lol i am no where to be found within first 50.
I cleared/empty cache, temp file etc to make sure its not displaying old resulr

The only difference is i have regular dialup internet at home + T1 at my work (the result were same at both places)
My sister has SBC YAHOO DSL.

Don't know why its doin this way!!!!Also my website is not for a local regional product i use generics keywords for a service i sell.

montytx · #7 (**permalink**) 03-13-2005, 11:52 PM

Your obviously using different data centers at Yahoo. I know that with Google the searchs can be quite different depending on which server you are querying.

montytx · #8 (**permalink**) 03-13-2005, 11:54 PM

Here is an idea... Find out exactly what the URL is and then open up a dos window and ping the server. It should respond with an IP address. I bet the will not match.

lingo:

ping www.yahoo.com or
ping www.sbc.yahoo.com or whatever your search sites are in the browser window.

collusion · #9 (**permalink**) 04-07-2005, 01:56 AM

It is always like that on Yahoo at first. Just 10 minutes ago my site listed # 7 in yahoo for risque lingerie and then i refreshed 5 minutes later and POW gone!. For some sites this happens all the time and never ends. I am lucky enough most of the time that it levels out and I end up with a top 10 ranking.

montytx · #10 (**permalink**) 04-11-2005, 10:14 PM

Ditto for me. I bounced up to 38 then back to 104.
Crazy. It is the new algo the just rolled out.