Beginner's Luck?

two week old site ranking top 10 on google

[spietreser]

Hi,

I started a website about two weeks ago and I am already starting to get visitors from Google and Yahoo. For some important search phrases I already rank top 10 of > 1,600,000. But on the Google bar it says "Current page is not ranked by Google".

My questions:
1. Is this just beginner's luck and will my website dramaticly drop at some point in the near future?
2. What do I have to do to keep this good positioning in Google?

Thanks in advance!

spietreser

[engine]

spietreser, welcome to WebmasterWorld and very well done.

Don't get complacent in any way with this runaway success. I don't want to bring in a negative to this, however, it is quite likely that the site will drop out until it has achieved a valid "ranking." If it does drop out - don't panic. Start working on building quality, relevant links and it should return in an update cycle or two.

[HuhuFruFru]

I have the same "problem". I had added my sites in september and since the end of november I have a lot of keywords with top ten positions (out of 100,000's) but my pagerank is still at 0.

[jpavery]

some sites get a crack at the top... same thing happened to me - got #1 position - held it for four months and then without warning in August I dropped to +60!
JP

[ciml]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, spietreser.

My personal and purely anecdotal experience is that the fresh listings are getting quite good at guessing where to position a new URL. To give good fresh rankings, I suspect that the fresh bot found you from a high PR page. If that link remains, you may have a good chance of keeping some nice listings.

[spietreser]

Thanks for the encouraging messages :) I must asume then that the domain had a lot to do with the current positioning.

But I guess I now have to work very hard on getting more incoming links from websites with high PageRanks on order to maintain this position.

jpavery: I know that the search engines change their algorithms every once in a while. Maybe that was the cause of your website's decrease in position?

Greetz,

...spietreser...

[Digimon]

Search Engines are strange sometimes. My case: I put a site online four months ago. I got a Top 10 for two KW combos like "blue widgets" and "red widgets". After one update I lost these rankings and I said ohhhhh. After last update I'm still down for the combos but I have got a Top 10 for "widgets" (more general word and hard to get positions). I haven´t done any changes in the site...
¿the algos, the goblins? I don't know...
;)

[MOOSBerlin]

Is this just beginner's luck? I don't think so, i think it's a good SEO work. But all the other thinks said are also right.