I recently wrote a new article for one of my sites and published it and placed a couple links on the site directly to the article and added another link from other one of my sites to that article as well so that search engines like Google would pick it up and index it. Anyway around 48 hours later it would appear that Google indexed it and placed it in its SERPs and started to send around 100 visitors that day to the article. Then 24 - 48 hours later it would appear that the article is now de-indexed and Google doesn't have it indexed and isn't sending any traffic to the article? What is with that? Did something happen recently? I think it is also not worthy to mention that I added two articles a couple of days prior to this one which were picked up and indexed within around 48 hours and they have remained indexed, but the articles I submitted couple of days later would appear to have either been temporarily indexed or not at all?? Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions as to why this might be the case?
Hate to say it, but there really is nothing that you can do about it. Google is always up and down, maybe some higher pr links pointing to articles might help. But then again who really knows.
Plus they have so many datacenters that its a crap shot on which one you will get when your search for your site index page.
Check if your content is not duplicated on some other site. Duplicated content can get you out of google.
I already have 2 PR 4 sites pointing at the articles. I don't know but both of those sites are hosted on the same dedicated server do you think I need some links from some other sites with a different IP - I know people talk about IP a lot when it comes to transfer of PR... Or is this just overkill. Also what are some of the other ways to build some good inbound links to articles like this so Google sees them as worthy of being indexed? I mean you can't exactly submit articles to directories can you? I guess this could be the reason... Actally some of the articles I recently wrote are already getting close to 400 unique visitors a day. All of the articles are completely original - like 100% original.
that has happened to me too. No way to solve it yet, but I am still doing my SEO work for my sites. I hope sometime soon they will get indexed again.
Hey, it was good while it lasted. What was the nature of your article? Maybe the number of relevant searches just died down immensely.
The number of searches for this topic has been consistant and rising for the last two years - the number of searches wouldn't have died down over night, it was just sheerly the fact that they articles was de-indexed. Anyway there has been some good news. Of the 7 articles I wrote, I published 3 initially (this is about two weeks ago now), which were all indexed about 48 hours later and remained index, then I published another about 3 - 4 days later, which was indexed and remained index, then I published another 3 which were the ones I was concerned about, which were indexed then de-indexed. Anyway today one of those three was re-indexed and is ranking well again. So now 5 of the 7 articles that have been published are ranking well in SERPs, I'm just waiting on the other 2, plus the other 6 I published yesterday (but I think they might be a couple more days before they are indexed and hit the SERPs). So all in all I think it is fairly good news to see one of the de-indexed articles get re-indexed. I still don't know why Google did this but I'd suspect it had something to do with the September 15 datbase rollback that seemed to happen.