Temperamental Google
March 24th, 2008
Written By: Adam Sussman
For a few months now a handful of my sites can rank almost immediately in Google SERPS whenever we add new content. I noticed just the other week one of the new pages I added to a site ranked in a competitive SERP in less than 4 hours.
Now I am noticing a complete opposite effect taking place. Looking at the exact same sites, some new content is now not even registering with Google, even after a few days.
When I say not registering, the new pages are not even being indexed.
Talk about temperamental. Some pages are indexed and ranked in hours while others are getting no love what-so-ever. All things being equal, we are not doing any trickery with links.
Its strange behavior…
Update: In an IM with an SEO I was asked some questions so I thought I would clarify here. 100% unique content. No link buying nor any sort of redirect manipulation taking place. We could add two new pages to some of the site and one page would get indexed while others would not. I am seeing this on a few sites. No penalty has been given to any of the sites since our money keyword terms are holding strong and there as been no movement in the ranks.
April 30th, 2008 13:01
I don’t know if I would call this behavior temperamental. I think its closer to ‘inconsistent’ or kind of like mood swings… anyways.. Google has been acting weird for the past month and even with the recent PR update.. a lot of people are noticing weird results.