Delayed Ranking In Google...What Is Going On?

[jackdorsey]

I am not sure what happened, but ever since around late Fall 2016, my Google rankings have been delayed.

What I mean by this is that I don't get ranked in Google for around 7 days or so on average. I don't know why this is because I used to be able to publish content and be ranked within minutes.

I currently have around 300 posts on the website I am talking about and many first page rankings. I do everything by the books and use legitimate SEO practices so I don't think it would be that Google is punishing my site, but I don't know of any other possibility.

Are there any SEO experts out there that could help me out??? Any thoughts??

 

[Mike001]

Funny you should mention this, I have noticed over the last few weeks many of my customer sites rankings have been rapidly decreasing.

I have been spending quite a bit of time researching any changes that may have occurred with the Google algorithm but so far have not seen anything that would have the impact that I am seeing.

I will let you know if I find anything that could be impacting your rankings. I am not an expert in SEO by any stretch of the imagination but I will let you know if I find anything.

I will keep an eye on this post though because we have some very good people with extensive backgrounds in SEO that are a part of the site.

 

[SEOPub]

You are complaining because you are not getting ranked in 7 days? It can take a lot longer than that for a new page to rank.

Are you talking about rankings or indexing? A lot of people confuse the two.

If in the past you saw new posts ranking within minutes, you were probably seeing personalized search results. That would be my guess.