Dropping in Google - don't have any idea why

[posterreal]

I have dropped in my keyword rankings from page 3 for Chandler Real Estate to page 8, from page 5 of Phoenix real estate to page 10 or so.

I had been making progress before this though it seemed stalled out. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for any insights!

[final project]

May be your competitors have worked more on SEO to bring their site
on other hand, the pagerank of pages from where you have inbound links have decreased.

[Elsoft]

I agree with finalproject's views.Google does update their site rankings regularly and hence unless you keep working continuously till you get a good traffic,the page rankings are going to fluctuate.But theres nothing to worry about,you can start working on it now and hopefully,its going to climb up.Good Luck.

[chrispalko]

I have a couple of real estate domain names and they dropped a few positions overnight, then a few days later were back up again. I'm assuming that competitors are also optimizing. Just keep working at it and analyzing the current #1 position.