+500% increase in Google visitors for 24 hrs

Hi,

My site is just over 6 months old and I've been doing the onpage and offpage optimisation for the site. These are my stats for referrals from Google (organic):

21st May : 14
22: 15
23: 14
24: 9
25: 11
26: 7
27: 13
28: 13
29: 20
30: 34
31: 80
1 June: 24
2: 9
3: 11
4: 21
5: 15
6: 15
7: 18
8: 19
9: 16

Ok so you see from the above on 31st May I got 80 referrals. I checked the Google SERP's on this day and found for a host of terms I've been optimising for I was in the top 5 of Google.

However since then I'm +50 for the terms. My theory is that I am still in the sandbox but for 30th May I was temporary shown as out of the sandbox.

Anyone else got any ideas or seen anything similar on that date?

I found this thread another forum which seems to be on the issue and also what round abouts the same date.

http://forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=1926

When my site came out of the sanbox it was at the same time as many other sites. It did start as a datbase change that happened at some data centres and than migrated. So you could be right.

But than again sometimes google tests stuff and people access that data base/s and see sudden ranking changes.... and nothing changes.

So best of luck I hope it works out good for you site.

Oh yeh I should give you this tool if you dont have it www.mcdar.net if ya want to become a database watcher for signs of change. I reccomend against it, it is quite pointless in the end..but you do see changes comming sometimes..

Hi,

Well I had the same problem a few days back. I am working on a site since 3 months and suddenly one day I saw 3 of my very competetive keywords were on the first page of google and were ranking on no. 4,9,2 respectively. I was quite happy to see the results but, the very next day all the ranks went past 100.
Even I as wondering what went wrong and then realised may be it was some kind of google dance which was happening.

Yes, a couple of threads here on seochat discussed the same thing. It was only a couple of hours on the 31st may. Someone said he paid the downpayment for a new maserati that day.

however, it was all gone after some hours.

Two explanations were given:
- google error (doubt it though)
- google testing

Since so far this has never come up again as SERPs, i guess they didnt like the results.

One things seems pretty common in all commentors: It were new sites (sandboxed?) that suddenly ranked well, sometimes extremely well, and the changes happened on the competitive terms.

My 2 cents: My SERPs have had fluctualtions already the days before the 31st may, then boom 1st page on almost everything i am targeting, then after that worse than before and extremely (!) stable

cristine01,

You are 100% correct, it was only for a few hours and i thought I was an SEO genius.

Maybe they are the results if the sites were not in the sanbox. Hopefully they will be like this in a few weeks again.