Ranking Drop for August 2016

[kkenyon]

We've been working our way back after all Google's been doing this year. We'd been sitting in the 30s most of the year, but even with some improvement in keywords as well as backlinks, we just dropped from 31 to 26. Is there a way to find a report or at least some insight as to why we dropped 6?

[Linda-Vassily]

Moz's rankings can change from month to month depending on the current index--you shouldn't rely on them as an absolute value. Have your competitors' ranking also dropped? Here is some info from Rand about fluctuations.

[kkenyon]

They did, but only by 1 or 2. Thanks for the resource!

[BlueprintMarketing]

See

JOHN DOHERTY's

"Diagnosing What Happened"

Whenever I see something weird going on in the SERPs, I do the following:

http://www.johnfdoherty.com/diagnosing-serp-volatility/

http://mozcast.com/

http://serpmetrics.com/flux/

https://serps.com/ has the best

SEMrush.com

http://www.webgnomes.org/blog/google-algorithm-chasing/

Will tell you more (got to run)

Tom

[kkenyon]

Thanks - I always forget to check Mozcast - looks like it's been a rough August so far!