Google Dance Questions
Is it normal to have google dance. Especially when site is about 1 year old.
Had a few niches that have gone from say rank 40 to rank 100+ today.
No issues in webmasters, is it best to just power through it? or are there any tips or tricks to it.
Thanks
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250 tier 1 links sent for crawling is quite a large number of links to be sending through per day, considering these links could potentially die within a matter of days, which will put doubt in the search engines criteria for your site, because; why would a good decent lose backlinks that were added so recently, this would be an easy metric to factor in..
If site A has x indexed within x amount of days but x amount of indexed links are no longer live after x amount of days..
This would look shady/suspect, I know I've sidetracked a little but it has to do with what I'm about to say.
I have been building my first tier and letting them sit before processing them for indexing, so for example I would send only links that have been alive for 20 or so days etc, there's more of a chance these links are going to stick in the future because they've made it past my threshold of 20days, which in effect would reduce the amount of dead backlinks that point to your site.
By using that method above, you won't even suffer from dances anymore because you'll be going at a much slower pace.
Dances are primarily to do with link indexing/crawling velocity, in the end they should go back to normal, if you've got your anchor text ratios on point anyway, so I wouldn't worry too much.
Links are being indexed at different times but are all connected via tiers, so for instance, a bunch of your tier 1's may have become indexed, then a bunch of your tier 2's and 3's may have become indexed which point to your tier 1's, the search engines recognise this and has to recalculate your tier 1's authority, hence it doesn't know where to place you, so it throws you out for a few days, weeks, months, depending on how many links you've sent for indexing.
In this type of scenario dances are fairly normal, as long as you've got your anchor text ratios on point, you'll bounce back, and if you've created enough links, you should go higher than where you were.