More content, very good content

[soopermark]

Hi,

I went on a serious mission in May to add very good content to my site. Site is 8 years old now, listings in Yahoo, DMOZ, mentioned in loads of blogs, etc. Hell I even got mentioned by Oprah, the coup de gras. I have always added content slowly, just a few pages per month I suppose, now about 900 pages. Some newcomer websites in the last year or so have been pecking away at my site, taking away traffic with their piddly adwords links that lead to my site anyway, just causing annoyance. So in May I invested several thousand dollars, probably closer to 10 thousand (!) on a massive campaign to gather information from different parts of the world. Traveled all over the place and documented tons of info. In June I probably added 100 unique pages of solid content, stuff that has never been cataloged online before. Existing readers of my site have been very happy with it. Several people linked to the new content. All of that content is important to my main site's theme, so links to the new content is interspersed throughout. The new pages are mostly text, with lots of photos.

I noticed that within a month or so, the new content appeared in Google. Great. Just now though as I was looking around, I noticed that a lot of it, the majority of it, is gone!

I usually focus on my site and content and let search engine issues work themselves out on their own, but lately I have to pay more attention to seo. I wonder if all of the new content I added (even some old content was dropped) is just a blip. Does google use a sandbox for new content? Is google suspicious of me for some reason, like a clever CIA agent who senses that something is wrong because for years I added content gradually but all of the sudden I added tons of it at once?

Thanks for any feedback.

[Brisbane SEO Guy]

I suspect it was just a blip.

How do you know that Google dropped the new content? What method did you use to determine that? Have you tried searching on a unique text string within that dropped content? I bet it shows up even if just in the supplementals.

I've had pages rank in the top 3, disappear completely for 3 -4 days, then come back in the top 3.

Google will play with your mind sometimes :eek:

[soopermark]

Hi,

Thanks for your note. I believe there have been similar blips in the past so you are probably right.

I found that the pages disappeared by searching for the specialized content. I'd rather not put my site information here for various reasons but I'll give you a fictitious example.

Let's say the King of a country called Lumbustan has a quality grading system called the Skaggert Council for a type of fruit that comes from his fine country. The fruit is enjoyed far and wide in his country and locals will always buy the fruit called Lomboowon if it's been graded by the Skaggert Council which gives an award called the Swamppalinda Award if the particular grower proves excellent quality for 5 continuous years. This is very specialized information. As my company sells Lomboowon, I traveled to Lumbustan and translated the entire Skaggert Council guidelines, photographed the fruit from seed to harvest, and presented it all online. Before I did all of this, if you searched on Google for Lumbustan Skaggert Lomboowon, you got very sketchy info that was meaningless. After all of my content went online, within a short time all searches pointed to my content. As of today, if you search for that info in any form or using those phrases, you do not get to my site at all. Furthermore some of my old content is also gone, but most of my old content is there. That content is about other specialized fruit that my company sells.

Sorry to make it boring and drawn-out but that's the gist of it.

[cryptblade]

You dont search for your indexed info by doing a search. You search by using the site:domain.com command.

If you find your pages using site:domain.com, you should be ok. Unfortunately, nowadays, you can't see if your new content is in supplemental index or not.