Pretty much everyday I use the Digital Point Keyword Tracker to see how well I am doing with my keywords. It pretty much helps me keep tabs on my positioning. Well, in late September we launched the new design of our site and we started using mod rewrite tools to make "search engine friendly" urls. I did a 301 on any old pages to their new friendly url so I didn't have old urls looking like new urls. Since then we have also actively been getting more backlinks. Anyway, for the last week and a half I have noticed some of the keyword phrases we use slowly start drifting off. Now we have N/A listed for 6 phrases. The one we target most hasn't moved...yet. Should I be concerned? Is this normal? I know Google positions can bob up and down but to go from in the top 30 for a few secondary phrases to off the charts seems odd to me. Could I be diluting secondary phrases with my main keyword phrase by getting backlinks? I am sure we have only added 30 or so new backlinks. It isn't like I got a huge number of new backlinks.

Any thoughts?

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>Should I be concerned?

not overly,

>Is this normal?

yes. It takes time for G! to update their indices.

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