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SEO advice needed - Google dropping sites when new content posted?

by PaulBaranowski
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SEO guys here!

It happened two times in a raw...when posting new content Google drops my site from page one to page two....then after a certain period of time the site climbs back up to page one....

Have you guys experienced something of that sort lately?
What the heck this could be about...Google tweaking their algo?
What are the best practices now?

Your input is highly appreciated!
#advice #content #dropping #google #needed #seo #sites
  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Your new content is featured on the homepage and that is also the page that ranks for the terms that now dropped?

    That could be the explanation, as your whole onpage SEO changes each time you publish something new.

    If that's the case you can make it less jumpy by stickying some posts so that it isn't so dynamic.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

      Your new content is featured on the homepage and that is also the page that ranks for the terms that now dropped?

      That could be the explanation, as your whole onpage SEO changes each time you publish something new.
      This happens a lot, even on well established domains that's why I've been replacing my ranked home page positions with ranked internal pages that don't change on-page SEO (optimized plain text per page).
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      • Profile picture of the author PaulBaranowski
        Hey guys, thanks so much for your insights!
        Yes, it was posting updates on to the home page before the drop happened.
        Now it starts to make sense to me...

        What is the bottom line here - optimizing inner pages so they get ranked?
        My initial goal was to keyword-optimize all the previously published pages -
        is it a good idea in order to have the inner pages ranked higher in Google?
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  • Profile picture of the author tech84
    yup, happens to some of my sites too. not just in rankings but also adsense seems to fluctuate too. but everything goes back to normal after a day usually.

    kinda weird though, i guess its what niko said since content on the homepage changes and it takes some time for google to adjust.

    i wonder how this works with bigger sites though, those that posts lots of new articles in a single day.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by tech84 View Post

      yup, happens to some of my sites too. not just in rankings but also adsense seems to fluctuate too. but everything goes back to normal after a day usually.

      kinda weird though, i guess its what niko said since content on the homepage changes and it takes some time for google to adjust.

      i wonder how this works with bigger sites though, those that posts lots of new articles in a single day.
      I guess most of the traffic from big sites comes from inner pages, news sites rank for the news with their inner page, despite that its' featured on the homepage, at least in most cases.
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  • Profile picture of the author craigslistposterpro
    You should add a blog section that only adds new content to your site leaving the rest of the content and on-site intact. That way, when Google crawls your site, it doesn't need to constantly re-evaluate your new ranking, only the ranking of the new blog post content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kolib
    I think it's normal, many people had this problem, I never figured what was the case actually @nik0 probably is right about it
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  • Profile picture of the author promo87
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    Originally Posted by PaulBaranowski View Post

    SEO guys here!

    It happened two times in a raw...when posting new content Google drops my site from page one to page two....then after a certain period of time the site climbs back up to page one....

    Have you guys experienced something of that sort lately?
    What the heck this could be about...Google tweaking their algo?
    What are the best practices now?

    Your input is highly appreciated!
    well, this ups and downs keep going on with the Google, as you said after a while you climb up again to the top then I don't think there is any need to be as soon as you are in the.......
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  • Profile picture of the author cbnet
    Yeah, I too have observed the same happening in my case. Whenever I publish a new post the number of visitors to my blog from next day on wards drops by 10-15% for few days. Then it recovers its position.
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    • Profile picture of the author PaulBaranowski
      Thank you so much guys for your input - it is really helpful!

      Cheers
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