Have you continue to build backlinks to it? If not the most likely cause is that Google sees it as a new article when published... and this has a lot to do with timing... but then as it ages and no new links are pointing to it, it sees it as irrlevant. You have to build links to your article if you want to maintain your ranking. One good way to do this is by linking to it from other Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Weebly, Blogger, etc. or by commenting on other Do Follow blogs.

Hope that helps.

Dennis

yeah ; i had an ezine article . I was #1 yesterday; now I can't find it

i had 6 approved today and all are on the first page for their keywords,i write 2 articles per keyword right away. How you write the article with LSI is very important now, thats what I have noticed anyways!

Think of SEO like a WAR. You have a small army? You will get easily defeated... unless your small army is like hard core dirty dozen special ops rambo kind of dudes. If you have a large army it will be more difficult to defeat you i.e. kick you off page one. You need an army of links to stay on page one. Keyword optimization will only get you so far.

Dennis

how do you check to see if your backlinking is effective and working; how long does it take for google to notice and about how many backlinks of pr6 & pr7 sites for an ezine article is a good amount?