new article in serps, but website is not

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new article in serps, but website is not

an effect of being sandboxed?

youfoundjake

3:31 am on Aug 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

I submitted an article to a pretty big site earlier this week.
I did a keyword search for 2 terms in the title "using computers to sell blue widgets"
so i searched computers, blue widgets
Out of 1 million results, the article is number 5
But my whole site is about computers and blue widgets and I can't find it anywhere. My site has been around for 6 months.
How is a 1 page article released earlier this week ranking higher than a whole site that has been around for 6 months?

tedster

3:48 am on Aug 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

I'll hazard a guess that the "pretty big site" where you submitted the article has been around a lot longer than 6 months. History rules pretty powerfully on Google at the moment, and your site has not yet established history or "trust" to any significant degree.

BaseVinyl

3:53 am on Aug 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

The fresh content is loved by the goog bots...it makes sense...your old site is stale...submit an article to another site and googlebot loves it...if you want such google treatment then submit your articles to your own site not to other sites...

[edited by: BaseVinyl at 3:53 am (utc) on Aug. 12, 2006]

youfoundjake

1:05 pm on Aug 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

The article site HAS been around for awhile. The article that I submitted is just a summary of what I have available on my site. I definitely go into more detail on my site. The reason I submitted to an article site is to get linkage points to my site, so that hopefully I will start showing up in the SERPS, but apparently I'm shooting myself in the foot if the article which only brought in 1 visitor is getting a higher SERP placement then MY WHOLE SITE! arrgghhh...As far as sandboxing, Im not showing up in yahoo or msn either so I don't think its being sandboxed, but may come more into trust and authority. I'm also trying to establish a site on a keyword that returns 72 million results at the points. But as I have read here many times, I'm still adding content on a weekly basis, and sometimes just being able to provide a "gimmick" or "hook" once a month will hopefully add up.