16 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}
16 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}

Why Does My Page Continue to Appear and Disappear From SERPs w/Regular Link Building?

by rbf738
13 replies
I regularly build 4-5 forum backlinks to a few Ezine articles in a certain niche I'm promoting every day. This is more or less constant.

I've singled out one article in particular to gauge the effectiveness of what I'm doing to see how it moves in the SERPs. I started taking notice when it was on page two. It eventually moved up to page one maybe position 6, then disappeared completely for awhile. I didn't know what could've happened as all of the other 9 rankings remained more or less the same. Then it seemingly inexplicably came back after I pinged the original article I believe and it was on page 2 again. Then it climbed back to page 1 again near the bottom, and now today it's gone again. This is all over the course of about 3 weeks.

I don't understand this because:

1 - I've been taking notice of an Articlesbase article which always was above me on page one for the same search phrase and their linking strategy is similar to mine.

and

2 - I just noticed today that ANOTHER Ezine article of mine with somewhat similar search words in the title but one which targets a different keyword altogether has taken up ranking abouts where my original article was on page one in Google. Those two articles of mine both should have virtually the exact same number and source of links.

Why is Google messing with that one article?
#building #continue #disappear #link #page #serps #w or regular
  • Profile picture of the author Loren Woirhaye
    It usually takes awhile for SE rankings to stabilize. You may get on
    the first page within a few weeks but staying there is harder - you'll
    generally know after 3-4 months where your holding position is likely
    to be based on what you're doing for backlinking. After your holding
    position is established, gains will tend to be incremental (unless you
    do something like buying high power backlinks) and you'll increase
    your ranking by one or two slots at a time, often leapfrogging back
    and forth with a competitor at times.
    Signature
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2657280].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author rbf738
      Originally Posted by Loren Woirhaye View Post

      It usually takes awhile for SE rankings to stabilize. You may get on
      the first page within a few weeks but staying there is harder - you'll
      generally know after 3-4 months where your holding position is likely
      to be based on what you're doing for backlinking. After your holding
      position is established, gains will tend to be incremental (unless you
      do something like buying high power backlinks) and you'll increase
      your ranking by one or two slots at a time, often leapfrogging back
      and forth with a competitor at times.
      Yeah I guess I should just keep going with my strategy and chalk any crazy fluctuations up to the dance for right now. Just frustrating cos the Articlesbase guy has maintained the exact same spot since he appeared.
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2657343].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author luis23
    It usually takes awhile for SE rankings to stabilize.
    That's right my friend. I will recommend you keep Link Building, so when you site comes back to page number 1, it appears with a stronger backlink. In that way, you will remain there stronger than ever.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2657886].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author DianeBrandt
    Could be because of the competition.
    Signature
    Kooday - Earn Cash With Kooday!
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2657923].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Ouroboros
    It's the famous google bounce...

    A new site will take a period of time to stabilize as you add content and the 'bots visit your site. I recently saw one of my new sites appear at 59, then disappear for 2 days, then reappear at #34, only to disappear for a day and then pop up at #47...

    Give it a little time.
    Signature

    Need a Simple Product/Service to Market to Offline Clients? Sell Them DFY Custom Videos. https://www.fiverr.com/users/gigsiteguy

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2658826].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
    How long has it been moving around? When did you submit the article?
    Signature
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2658862].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      google doesnt find and give credit in their algo all the same day you post links.

      Every time it finds more links pointing to your site it is changing the data Google has in its index [ database ] about your site.

      Why it drops - we dont know for sure - but we do know from experience and monitoring cause and effect activities - to a small level of certainty - that continuous link building activities does cause your pages to temporarily drop in the SERPS ...

      and ... if one continues to link build - the pages will come back to their former positions ... many times even higher than they were before they dropped.

      Its a PITA and can be rather disturbing - especially when you bounce off page one from positions 1-4 to position 100+!!!
      Signature
      Rank Ascend Network - High PR Links / Guaranteed Rankings Increase
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2658888].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author TheAffairLady
    I'm not an expert like some of these guys but I wonder if it has something to do with where the link to your article appears on ezinearticles? For a short time you would have a high value link to the front page and then it moves to the category and then the archives etc. Also I know some SEO marketers say that there are several google bots which use slightly different algorithms so which bot crawls you could make a difference.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2658874].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author leebarclay
      I can relate...

      I was testing a hub page strategy, followed the directions. Got up the next moring and I was on page 2 of google. I was impressed. I finished doing as instructed during the day and went back to google to look for my hub page...

      Not to be found... I spent hours doing alintitle: searches, "" searches. I went through every search, seriously each and everyone... Nothing! I went to bing, yahoo... Nothing! Went back to hubpages still active hub...

      Never figured out what went wrong... passed on the strategy.. Thats part of being an Internet Marketer... Sometimes it is like being a Magician... with bad days and good ones...

      Personally, I prefer the good days!!!! LOL

      Best wishes...
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2658911].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author rbf738
    I submitted it back in May I'm pretty sure but didn't start to backlink until a few weeks ago. It's a new niche and I think I was on top until around August when everyone else started to jump in. The Articlesbase guy submitted his just a month and half ago but has been building links since it was published it looks like.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2658887].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author rbf738
    Just out of curiosity, do you all think that my pinging the original article would do anything to help it reappear in the SERPs? Like maybe the search engines will take notice of the link building I've done more quickly...?
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2672362].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author kellymandingo
      Im Glad im not the only one this is happening to

      I have a 18 month old site which was page 1 for many very cometative keywords and has been stable for the last 3 months, this last week has seen some keywords hit the number 1 spot on Googles front page whilst many others dropping 20+ pages, the an hour later back where they were and then dropping again.

      Maybe a new algo is out there not quite sure but just hold tight and keep doing the good linking and im sure it will bounce right back.

      but for me i have never seen so much activity so somthing is going on
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2672428].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
    Much of this depends on the quality of the backlinks compared to your competitors. Also, you have no control, but you are spending money and working your butt off.

    Personally, I have found that my best chance at keeping any article on page 1 is to add to the article on a daily basis for two to three weeks. During this time frame add 2-3 backlinks from 2-3 sites on a daily basis from sites in the same niche, if possible from the same page title and the same category title.

    This is all too easy to do if you partner with 2-3 webmasters working in the same niche. This is one way you and your partners can proactively control good page rank for all sites concerned. Some marketers will say you are introducing competition. Actually, you are creating the potential to control page 1 whereas before and now you have no control at all.

    Jeffery 100% :-)
    Signature
    In the minute it took me to write this post.. someone died of Covid 19. RIP.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[2672526].message }}

Trending Topics