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Very confused about recent article experience!

by DavidO
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Recently I wrote a series of articles. In order to get original credit for my content I posted them on my site first, one each day. After posting an article I would Digg it and use other bookmarks to get indexed quickly. Then when I confirmed that my new page was indexed I published my work on just two or three top article directories.

My early results were exciting; I saw big improvements in SERPs overnight. I even posted my experiences here on the WF.

I repeated this for the third time yesterday and waited for indexing... and waited. I know Digg gets spidered every few minutes and that's how I got indexed so fast before. But now it's overnight and my page is not to be found.

EVEN WORSE... the previous articles I did this way have vanished from Google!!! What gives? This is totally legit. It's my original content... how can it have been de-indexed?

These pages should come back and I'll watch for them. But at the moment I'm at a complete loss to understand what's going on.

EDIT: I just had a thought... I wonder if Google is giving the credit to the "authority" sites, even though I published first? But why not use the SERPs for that? Why de-index my pages?
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  • Profile picture of the author mudmat
    Hi DavidO,

    I'm not an SEO expert but from experience, Google tend to index new sites quickly and then within a few days your indexed site will disappear from the search engine

    I can't explain this but it is normal. Just continue to post articles and bookmark it using Digg and other social bookmarking sites. Continue building backlinks to your site and your site will appear in the search engines again.
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  • Profile picture of the author indexphp
    The SERPS do funny things sometimes. You just have to keep going and think of what went wrong and why, for everything you do.
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    • Profile picture of the author DavidO
      Thanks, Mudmat. Your comments show that I should point out a couple things for clarification:

      My site is established 2.5 years and pretty stabile in the SERPs. The pages involved are new article pages. I'm aware of no reason for an original content page to be indexed one day and de-indexed the next, especially when the duplicate content remains on another site.

      Only a penalty could account for this and yet my pages are fresh, original content - exactly what Google wants... supposedly!
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  • Profile picture of the author Li Weng
    Why don't you post to Ezinearticles and sites like that first? They're authority sites too.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnsamuels
    Originally Posted by DavidO View Post

    Recently I wrote a series of articles. In order to get original credit for my content I posted them on my site first, one each day. After posting an article I would Digg it and use other bookmarks to get indexed quickly. Then when I confirmed that my new page was indexed I published my work on just two or three top article directories.
    I've said this many times. When promoting articles on Digg and other social media sites, do not, i repeat DO NOT be lazy and just copy and paste your articles title and description into digg.

    Write something unique and completely different to the title and description that you have used on your own site.

    I've seen articles pushed into the supplemental index due to people simply using the original articles title and description. Obviously this is not something that will happen to large established sites, but for those of you promoting small personal sites, it is a real danger. And don't believe the crap that there is no supplemental index.
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  • Profile picture of the author JJOrana
    Well actually, it Search Engine Results Page
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  • Profile picture of the author jen31
    Hi,

    My early results were exciting; I saw big improvements in SERPs overnight.
    Your page is new and you have seen improvement overnight. And the next few of days, your ranking decrease of de-indexed by Google. I think this is just Google sandbox. Google tends to sandbox new sites or pages that are ranked higher at first. It will come back after a few weeks.

    Just continue building more links to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author godisgood
    Hi,

    Just keep going i had my articles going up and down too.
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  • Profile picture of the author flashgordon
    David, that is exactly my strategy and I have been using it successfully for over a year now. Sometimes, if you repost your article on a site with a higher authority, it will make your indexed article drop out of the rankings. Over time, however, it should come back. One thing I do is never repost the entire article. I post my article on my site, then ping so it gets crawled organically. Then I social bookmark the article a couple days latter. Next, after another week or so, I go to the various social networking sites, blogs, etc. and repost the first paragraph or two of the article with a link at the bottom saying "read the rest of TITLE of ARTICLE here. That way I get a little keyword love for that article, plus backlinks. Seems to work, but you have to keep on top of it as it is a revolving two week process for each article. But it lets you build up several deeplinks with your targeted keywords.
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