This is my first post but I am a long time visitor to this site. I have a question for all you webmaster gurus to ponder.

I instill white hat tactics to my site, <snip>. I've spent a good portion of time optimizing for keywords. My hard work pays off by getting first page results for the keyphrase <snip 3 word kp>. However, the first page results only last for a week. Then, they are gone for about another couple months, then back again for about another week.

My question is if this is normal? I have <snip> hosting my site. They have had networking problems which have caused my site to be unreachable at times. Is google's algo that sensitive to a site on the first time it can't find a site to remove it from search results?

Pls help
Matt

[edited by: physics at 4:19 am (utc) on Oct. 1, 2006]
[edit reason] Snipped specific domain, kp and host [webmasterworld.com...] [/edit]