Same Page Ranking Twice for Same Keyword

[Frank Benjamin]

I have been monitoring a certain KY lately and never really went a page past my current spot. But today, I was looking for another website of mine that also ranked for this keyword and when I went from the 3 page (current rank is 27) to the fourth page, the same exact page is ranking at 31. This all on a subdomain so I don't think is it is a canonical domain issues, not to mention I have that taken care of anyway.

Any thoughts?

[Frank Benjamin]

must have been a short-term hiccup. I was looking at the results again and I saw two listing like before. I refreshed the search and one listing was gone....too bad it was the the better ranking one, lol. Oh well, I have been dancing anyway after doing some off-site SEO. I will have to see where I settle in a couple of weeks.

[-Shay-]

I sometimes see this when SERPS are beginning to fluctuate for a specific keyword.

[Frank Benjamin]

This keyword has been in flux since the PayDay Loan Update. I actually jumped up about 15 spots, though I am back down 3-5 as of today. Cutts did say this update will be going on for a few weeks, so it could still be that or my site is dancing a little.

[edgarf76]

i read they just did an update for car insurance keywords. I haven't seen anything fluctuations however I looked at my backlink report in webmaster tools. I have a ton of backlinks from a viagra forum, I think I got hit with negative SEO. So far I have not seen a change, has anyone had this happen?

[Frank Benjamin]

I look at my backlinks in WMT periodically, but I have never seen anything suspicious. This particular KW is the only one I track that I saw fluctuation in since the Pay Day Loan update. I wouldn't be surprised if this keyword was part of the update, as it does have decent competition, converting traffic and I would suspect many sites trying to rank for it - both quality and spam sites.