My page went from 4th place to 15th. What happened?

[Eduard]

I hope you can help me figure something out. I wrote this article on my blog called Overcoming an inferiority complex. Then I started building some backlinks using guest posts, article directories submission, comments on blogs, forums, the works.

Five days later (yesterday), the post was on the 4th place on Google for the search “inferiority complex”. Six days latter (today), it’s on the 15th place. I have no idea what happened to trigger this drop.

Do you guys know what might have happened and if my post will get back to 4th place if I just wait a while?

Thanks in advance,

Eduard

[McBrett]

Hi Eduard - A lot of blog posts have the tendency of doing what I call "rank and tank".

My thought is that Google temporarily views the new blog post as important for a little while (query deserves freshness), later the post settles further down in the results.

I wouldn't be too concerned about this or worry that you have done something wrong as a result of your drop in rankings on that keyword.

My recommendation would be not to worry about that 1 keyword ranking and just focus on creating more content and driving more traffic each month to your blog.

[scott g]

A lot of people have been experiencing erratic jumping in the SERPs lately from relatively new sites/blogs to aged, happily ranked sites/blogs.

I personally think Google's up to something.... LOL! Or I could just be way off. There's been tons and tons of new threads lately regarding Google dancing and erratic site SERP jumping.

Keep doing what you're doing. Building new backlinks, new content, new articles, new bookmarks, tweets, WHATEVER it is you do! And if you haven't been doing anything, maybe it's time to start again!

CHEERS!

P.s. My new sites have been doing some ridiculous Google dancing lately! I'm talking about 10 page jumps in a day, up and down, to page one to not in the top 1k!!! Argle Bargle

[annamartin]

The first thing which you should do is not to get worry
Now make sure that you haven't made any development changes or changes in your content. If you have made any change then definitely page is indexed and your ranking is down due to those changes.

[stevemack]

yes.. there will be lot of variation in SERP's when the site was first crawled after the content refreshment and when it crawls for 2nd, depending on the links that you have build, it gets the position (either decrease / increase).

[rinor81]

Originally Posted by scott g

A lot of people have been experiencing erratic jumping in the SERPs lately from relatively new sites/blogs to aged, happily ranked sites/blogs.

I personally think Google's up to something.... LOL! Or I could just be way off. There's been tons and tons of new threads lately regarding Google dancing and erratic site SERP jumping.

Keep doing what you're doing. Building new backlinks, new content, new articles, new bookmarks, tweets, WHATEVER it is you do! And if you haven't been doing anything, maybe it's time to start again!

CHEERS!

P.s. My new sites have been doing some ridiculous Google dancing lately! I'm talking about 10 page jumps in a day, up and down, to page one to not in the top 1k!!! Argle Bargle

Same thing happened to me. Sites on page 1 then disappeared entirely and then back to page 1...very strange.

[mad.hat]

Did you continue building backlinks or did you stop after you were happy with your results? You can not stop building backlinks just because you rank on page one some day. You need to continue with your seo efforts.

If after some time your site does not move up in the SERPs you need to increase your efforts.

[dburk]

Originally Posted by McBrett

Hi Eduard - A lot of blog posts have the tendency of doing what I call "rank and tank".

My thought is that Google temporarily views the new blog post as important for a little while (query deserves freshness), later the post settles further down in the results.

I wouldn't be too concerned about this or worry that you have done something wrong as a result of your drop in rankings on that keyword.

My recommendation would be not to worry about that 1 keyword ranking and just focus on creating more content and driving more traffic each month to your blog.

Best Answer! QDF is the likely cause for what you are seeing.

Keep in mind that when you use a blog format for your website you are constantly changing your homepage (or posts page) content. So the content that gets you to the top of SERP for a particular keyword will change as you update your blog with new posts. You should generally expect to rise in ranking for new keywords while dropping in rankings for other keywords due to this changing content.

[Barcelona19]

Wow, from first page to not in 1k results, what are the proposed theories behind this drastic change?

[BloggerDeen]

You shouldn't worry about SEO position that much just keep getting high quality links. It can take time for your position become stable. Also Google algorithm changes a lot so SEO positioning can really fluctuate a lot.

[dburk]

Originally Posted by Barcelona19

Wow, from first page to not in 1k results, what are the proposed theories behind this drastic change?

Theory? This sounds like the well known effects of QDF. which is fact, not theory.

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