Why did this happen??

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I wrote a press release yesterday for a keyword that draws a small amount of leads for my business and within 3 hours it made it to the first page of google. By yesterday evening it is way back in the rankings. Why did this happen? Is it more then likely because it was on prlogs home page for a few hours and getting the pull from that? If I got it to first page #10 that easy, would a few good backlinks pull that thing back up pretty quick. It's all puzzling to a rookie:confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author mikestenger
    You see, Google is constantly updating their index. You can literally have something land on the first page and then later that day it be gone from it. Good backlinks do help and if you've done everything properly, you can expect that sucker to stay there for a while.

    Your PR being on the home page of prlogs could have been what shot it up, then when new ones were added and yours vanished from the home page, so did your top ranking in the big G. Just keep it moving man!
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  • Profile picture of the author kelvin yeo
    Agree with Mike. If that press release is that important to your business, then build some solid links to it to get it up and make it stick.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    There's also a thing known as QDF (Query Deserves Freshness) that many experts believe is involved in Google's ranking algorithm. Essentially, it just means that fresh content discovered by Google gets a temporary boost in the rankings for a short amount of time.

    I always kind of chuckle when I read some excited newbie (not referring to the OP here, just in general) post that their brand new site or article is #1 at Google. We've all been down that road of initial excitement, followed by head scratching and wondering why we're being "penalized" unfairly. LOL

    John
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