Google rankings...

[John Cutter]

I spent a couple of weekends making an affiliate site for my wife: www.emptynestgames.com

She hasn't started to promote the site yet, but a googlebot visited several weeks ago while I was experimenting with my Excel-based content management system. I think the bot indexed a bunch of incomplete and very buggy pages; and it hasn't been back since. Ugh.

Anyway, two days ago a Google search for "empty nest games" (obviously very specific) turned up "www.emptynestgames.com " on the bottom of the second page of results.

Yesterday, the same Google search returned the front page as the first result.

Today, "empty nest games" only returns a result on page 6. And it's not even the front page, it's a game review.

Why is the site jumping around so much from day to day???

[Jesse Hopkins]

Well, it usually takes a week or 2 after I do a major update for it to get on yahoo/google. Try yahoo. How is it there?

PS - Is Daycare Nightmare on there? Should be good for her site.

[Matthew]

With a new site it'll take at least a few weeks for things to settle down. It'll be a few months before you can make any kind of real analysis about how your SEO decisions worked out...