Why does Google lose my new blog posts so fast from SERPs?

[krisolin]

I have come across a very peculiar phenomenon. Google seems to lose my blog posts from the SERP's after a few days of posting.

For instance yesterday morning I published a new post. When I searched for its title in the evening it was on page one position one. Awesome!

Today, however the post is nowhere to be seen. All I can see now are my listings from other websites such as BizSugar, LinkedIn and Bloggers.

I usually post the URL's of my new blog articles with descriptions to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, StumbleUpon, Blogger, BizSugar, Quora etc. I also upload the main images to Pinterest and Flickr. This is mainly do some PR for them and get additional traffic.

Why are my original blog posts gone from the SERP's so quickly? Or at least not found within the first 25 pages? Does it have something to do with my PR operations with other website which have better Google Page Ranks than my blog (PR 2)?

Please advice as this is making my SEO a nightmare.

Cheers,
Kris

[edited by: tedster at 5:22 pm (utc) on Jul 14, 2012]

[tedster]

Hello krisolin, and welcome to the forums.

It sounds to me like your blog may not yet have enough trust/authority to hold onto that first "fresh" result. Are you at least starting to see some people link to you as a result of your postings?

[krisolin]

Thanks Tedster! I will try to behave :)

My blog has been live since 2008 but I changed the domain name this February, so the new domain is 6 months old. I did do all the required redirections etc. and I've got PR 2 now. It used to be PR 3 under my old name.

I've got 7,956 inbound links according to Google Webmaster Tools and 2,150 according to Bing.
on average my posts get a 10 Facebook Likes, 60 retweets, 15 LinkedIn and G+Shares.

I do quite a bit promotion for my articles, so I was wondering
is this what Matt Cutts calls Webspamming:

Everytime I post a new blog article I promote it to the following websites:
(Usually I post the main image with short description and the URL of the article)

1. My Facebook Group and business & personal pages (via Networked Blogs FB app.)
2. A few Twitter accounts
3. My Google+ account and two Google+ pages
4. Several (40) LinkedIn groups and my own LI Company -page
5. StumbleUpon
6. Digg
7. Reddit
8. Chime.in
9. Bizsugar.com
10.Inbound.org
11.PDF upload to SlideShare (just recently)
12.Pinterest (very good for traffic!)
13.Flickr
14.Triberr.com, where my tribesmates retweet (lots of traffic!)
15.Bloggers.com
16.Ontoplist.com
17.My Quora board
18.Storify (sometimes)

Do you think this would be seen as webspamming from Google?

[Robert Charlton]

krisolin - As I look at some of these social sharing sites, some of them strike me as being remarkably similar to link exchange sites or article directories... and I'm thinking that Google may not value the links from these as "freely-given editorial links" from relevant authoritative sites.

[krisolin]

Thanks for your reply Robert,

Obviously they would not be "freely-given editorial links" as they were posted by me in order to promote new blog posts.
How about if I cut them down and stick to the main ones ie.
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest? Or should I just stop the promotion all together?

[londrum]

maybe you could drip the promotion over the following week, instead of doing it all straight away.

so print the article, and maybe link it to facebook. and then when it drops down the SERPs stick it on twitter, and then follow with the other stuff