A couple of people have told me something about how new pages are ranked that doesn't quite sound right. Wondered if I might run it by you guys. According to these people, when you add a new page to your site, Google 'gives it a chance' in a high position. If it gets what Google considers a decent number of clicks, over a certain time period, it is allowed to stay, if not it is moved down to a more suitable position. Basically these people are arguing that Google knows the number of clicks a page in that position should get, and allows the if the page a chance to sink or swim, before deciding its ranking. This really doesn't sound right to me, but I'm no expert. What do you lot think?
I've never seen that happen on any new sites I've launched. You have to work your way up the rankings.
If so, Google adwords would help in our SERP but the fact is not. Right, new sites and new pages would usually get a relative higher position but they are in the sandbox. Thanks,
Actually, it's not completely wrong. A lot of new sites find they have a honeymoon period when they are first indexed, that gives them an unnaturally high position in serps, then they settle down to a more natural position and the hard seo work begins. Root around this forum and you will loads of threads complaining that their new site was doing great for a few days, then seemed to sink without trace. I can't say I've seen new pages on an already established site getting the same boost - be interested to see what people with a lot of blog experience say.
It sometimes happens, but I don`t think only to new pages... You could get on page 1 and after 2 days be back on page 10 and so on...Google is making some very strange modifications sometimes
That was an effect of a so called "fresh content" factor. Most of them will be pushed to last page later. However, some of them may have been stay for long but not because of CTR, it because of some reference to them from other websites. If those new content had been mentioned or praised from some authority site that Google gives enough weight, it will have a higher chance to stay longer in first page for certain keywords.
Thanks a lot guys, that's really helpful! So I guess it MAY be that new pages get indexed higher up to begin with (as they're new content) but whether they stay there or not is nothing to do with clicks alone. Matt.
This sounds good, but I dont think its like that. Usually a new site will get posted front and then google will pump it back to the back of the line.
Well thanks foe entertaining me!!! Avoid such silly news and just start concentrating on your sites promotion