Rankings fluctuating by around 10 pages between night and day

[MarkHincks]

Hi all,

I'm experiencing something very odd with my website ranking at the moment.

My homepage is fluctuating in rank for my main keyword by 10 pages every day and night.

So, during the day i am on page 14, 15 or 16 for my main keyword yet by night i am on page 5 or 6. This trend has continued for the past 7 days now and i can't quite understand why this is.

I'm using pagewash dot net to carry out manual searches and a ranking tool - both of which produce exactly the same result.

Does anyone have any experience of this or why this is happening?

My domain is around 8 years old and has around 50,000 pages.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

[MoosaHemani]

Mark continuously from the last 7 days is odd but fluctuation is kind of normal to many people who keep a close on rankings for certain key phrases...

I believe you should check your rankings using this URL (replace KEYWORD with your keyword) https://www.google.com/search?q=KEYWORD&gl=us&pws=0 and see if you experience the same... usually ranking tools track location based results and there is a huge possibility that there is no such thing like this in the general US results!

[JBidigital]

If you are directly checking in Google.com then browser history, cache, IP, all play a role in generating results. If you want to get the real picture, try stealth setting in your browser. It does not consider cache or IP and gives almost accurate results.

I say almost, coz when it comes to Google, nothing is transparent.