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Google Explains Why Your New Page’s Number One Ranking May Drop

Barry Schwartz on April 8, 2013 at 2:13 pm

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts posted a video explaining why it is not uncommon to see a new page rank very well in Google early on, and then, that ranking declines over time.

Matt explains that sometimes, Google has a hard time figuring out the original source of a new piece of content. But over time, i.e., days, weeks, months, Google is better able to figure out the most relevant result for a query due to indexing more signals over time. Thus, over time, the search results may settle down to a particular state; but early on, new pages may rank high and lose their rankings over time.

Certain queries that deserve freshness, that is where QDF – Query Deserves Freshness comes from. Other queries prefer more evergreen, more settled content, Matt explains.

Here is the video:

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on SEM topics.