Google De-Indexing My News Related Posts (yet I have Sitelinks)

[sean22]

Hi guys.

My first post on WMM included my news related posts that would disappear from Google's 1st page. Tedster informed me that page 1 on Google (news related) is 'volatile', especially for new sites.

My site is going on 1 year old/ 6 months live. A major website contacted me to spread the word about something and also a link exchange proposal. I was elated as hell because A big site saw some interest in me. So I wrote a post, and I was on page 1 Google, just 2 places south of the website that contacted me.

Now for 2 days that entire page is de-indexed. Google did this to me before. This is a hot news item. It is only good this week. Google gave me site-links, so there is some trust, right! I won't be surprised if in two weeks or even 1 month I am on page 1 for this news item.

Too little and too late or after the story is dead.

What am I doing wrong? Why am I being de-indexed after being 6 months live and with site-links?

[tangor]

Might ask if the "spread the word" is the culprit. News reporting is one thing. "Spreading the word" is like fertilizing a lawn... sometimes the grass comes up green, sometimes it kills the grass.

[MLHmptn]

Or better yet, get those sites using your news articles to provide the link to your site as the source with a "in-content" anchored topic link. Have you heard of "link baiting"? :>~