Originally Posted by jetjet

looking at stats for a number of sites, and with keywords dancing up and down the ranks, I get the impression that google "dials you in" to a certain traffic level, based on who knows what in their algorithm, and adjusts your keyword positions based on that level

it seems to me too coincidental that sites with many different indexed pages and keywords seem to average out to a pretty steady level of traffic... seems like when you look one day and see a big move in the rankings for a keyword and think you are on to a big rise that somehow things get adjusted in a hurry and your traffic levels level off again

maybe I just haven't been lucky enough to experience any great things from google recently, do any of you have any luck in seeing big traffic gains sent from google overnight that persist for weeks and months after?