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I had an article thats been up on ezine for about a week and I was tracking its standings and suddenly it just disappeared the day after I gave it a couple backlinks.

Do articles get slapped or is this just the google dance?

It's not even showing up in google as indexed anymore. Do articles get de-indexed when they do the google dance? I don't think so but I'm not sure.

Thanks,
Scott
#google #slap
  • Profile picture of the author kelvin yeo
    Scott:

    From my experience, new articles get a lot of Google love for a week or 2 but will fall off after that, especially when competing articles with the same keyword/s are submitted to Ezine. Keep building them there backlinks if you're serious about using that article as a traffic generator would be my advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author chtfld
    Yeah, EZA articles are notorious for high rising and falling quickly. It's nice for a temporary traffic boost, but if you want those keywords long term, you have to do a bit of extra work like Kelvin said. In my experience, it's definitely worth it, especially when building authority on a subject.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
    There are tons of reasons that things move around. First, I wouldn't put any stock in a page's position within the first week or even few weeks that it's online. It's likely going to bounce all over.

    Particularly with something like EZA, you're going to see a boost up front because your article will be linked to from the home page, new articles page, category pages, etc, etc. In other words, you'll have a bunch of high profile links when your article first comes out. Then as other newer articles are published, your article will move to lower ranked pages and your backlink power will drop off.

    Plus Google gives a boost to 'fresh' content.
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    • Profile picture of the author JoshuaG
      Google loves fresh content. Everyday there are hundreds of people writing articles related to your niche and submitting to ezine. If you don't backlink to your article google sees no reason to keep it ranked when there is something fresh it can serve up. If you want to keep your articles ranked you should backlink to them
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    What I have begun doing is keeping a spreadsheet of my positioning on certain keywords and tracking my positioning. Not a perfect system by any means, but it at least allows me to visualise the indexing, and any movement.
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