I’ve got a blog with a particular blog post that was on the front page of google when I searched the revelant search terms.
Unfortunately I had to re-write the article, and now when I do a search with the same terms, its not front page anymore and is so far down I cant find it.
Is it just a case of waiting for it to rise back up? or is there something I can do to get it back to the front page more quickly?
Or perhaps I should just delete the post, wait a while, and make a new blog post of the original content?
If it’s dropped down, but is essentially the same, it could be a matter of waiting (if Google caught it in between changes or something).
However, it’s likely that your keywords just changed. Is the term highly competitive (like “web design”) or more specific (like “free goat rides in Amsterdam”). If it’s the later, it’s could be you just removed some of those phrases from your article which caused it to drop down.
If it’s the former, they’re “highly competitive”, and it’s likely you just dropped down in them for more natural reasons.
You’ve said you can’t find in the first 50 pages … but is it there at all? Type site:yoursitename.com into Google and that will show you all the pages Google has indexed on your site. Is the page there? If so, move on to Phase Two.
Phase Two. Has Google indexed the page for relevant queries? Type site:yoursitename.com relevant search words into Google. Does the page come up? If yes, Google knows the page is there, and what it’s about. Then we need to get to the bottom of why it has fallen.
You say you had to re-write the article … did the URL of the page remain the same? Or if the URL changed, did you put a redirect on to ensure the old URL still works? Was there any downtime between the old article going down and the new article going up when that URL was giving a 404 error (and I’m talking days here, not the few seconds it takes to FTP a new file into place).
I should just say Im on blogspot.com, I dont know wether that would make any difference.
In the results of the google search of my web address, I couldnt find an url to the actual blog post, but some urls say ‘December 2010’, ‘January 2011’.
What actually happened with the article was I needed to rewrite a portion’s of it, but there was 3 parts to the article so I created 3 separate blog posts, and published them one after the other (for 3 weeks). But as it stood, part 1 was below the other parts, so I cut and paste the articles around, so that part 1 came first, part 2 came second etc, as you scroll down the page.
The url did remain the same. There was no downtime between switching the articles.