SEO Question -- What's up with Google?
inerte: I've seen Google promoting fresh pages to the first results and then the pages vanishing. Many, many times... so your situation is not uncommon! In fact, it happened to me, right here on HN, check this comment:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576727Whoever replied that my comment was at the top was right, I checked. But if you search for "80-19-1" today, it doesn't appear.My guess is that, when Google finds a new content, it injects amidst the "proven" results, to, let's say, test it. To dip its foot in the water. To see if it floats in the storm.Your page probably still doesn't deserve a top slot, not because of its contents, but because Google hadn't the time to properly analyse it. Does it pass on the spam filters? What are users doing: going back and clicking another result, staying for little time on the page (remember, if you use AdSense, Analytics or the user has the Google's toolbar installed, it can be measured), and all the other things.So, don't worry. New pages (specially new domains) must have time to cook in Google's datacenter ovens. You should worry only if after 2-3 months (in fact, I've seen webmasters reporting that new domains might take over a year to fully blossom), the page still doesn't appear. Then it really means it should not, either because there's something wrong or your competitors outrank you.SEO is a game of patience, padwan :)