Hi, I wrote an article titled How to Write a Search Engine Friendly Page and then I added that to my blog Minterest here http://www.minterest.com/2007/08/24/how-to-write-a-search-engine-friendly-page/ and then I submit that article to EzineArticles and its listed here http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Write-a-Search-Engine-Friendly-Page&id=714831 and then I submitted that to Digg too.... But I submitted that article to Ezine after that article is indexed by Google from my site.... When its accepted by Ezine I Googled "how to write a search engine friendly page" (without the quotes) and my site was the Number one... and Ezine was behind me But now when I searched for the same keyword, Ezine is first and my site is not there in the results... Then I searched "How to write a Search Engine friendly page" with quotes now Ezine is number 1, digg number 2 and My site is number 3... Whats this?????? Ezine's article have direct link to my article.... Now it looks like I copied that article from Ezine.
Please don't be sad. It may be due to the Google's dancing and also because of the changes between your article and the other one's article. Any way hope for the best.May be your article will come first soon.
Calm down and check the hit the google se again few days later. you might be restored to you no.1 position.