Why Does My Site Rank High Then Disappear in Google?
Posted by peter on December 4, 2008 |
A question that is becoming more and more common recently is “why is my new site getting good rankings and then disappearing from Google altogether?”.
It’s a valid question, because there are few things more satisfying than seeing your website at the top of Google, and probably few things more frustrating and sout destroying than seeing that ranking taken away from you the next day.
Well, if this is happening to you, take heart, it’s not unique to you and this is happening to a lot of other people out there.
The scenario is so familiar…
- You create a new site
- You link to it from a few places like in forums
- You wait 48 hours
- Yeah! There it is, high rankings and ready to rock
- 2 days later…there’s no sign of it.
- Cry
So, what can you do? This is happening to lots of other sites. For some reason Google now indexes your site very fast, temporarily gives you good rankings and then your site disappears altogether, often for up to a week.
Don’t worry though, more often than not, your site will reappear, but don’t expect good rankings over night.
Getting good rankings is a combination of factors, although it’s mostly centered around getting back links.
Comments (5)
Jane "quick cash advance" Aidan
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
“Google now indexes your site very fast, temporarily gives you good rankings and then your site disappears altogether, often for up to a week”
maybe because you took advantage of the high rank you have in Google then you forgot to optimize it again with the little knowledge you have on SEO. Basically, good ranking, high PR, more traffics on your website does require patience. So, you need to work on it.
Barry
January 16th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I experienced the EXACT same thing. Lasted about a week then vanished. What makes you confident it will return? My domain is somewhat obscure — it shouldn’t really compete with anything. Ideas anyone?
Erwin Sigterman
January 16th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
I think Google appreciates fresh content and therefor gives you a higher ranking at first!
Keith
March 20th, 2009 at 12:26 am
I see this all the time. I think google want to get an idea of how relevent searchers think your page is, so they give it some traffic to see what happens - clicks, page view duration, and bounces. Then an actual human looks at the results and makes a base line determination. From there its up to the automated algorithims to make adjustments.
John
August 17th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Most definitely frustrating indeed. Happened to me too. But I think Keith is right.
I think we should mostly continue to build content and links no matter what PR we reach.
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