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Site appearing and disappearing from google serps.
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Hi,
My website is normally on page 2-3 on google consistently. Over the past month it has been appearing and then completely disappearing from the serps. One day it will be on page 2, then the next day completely missing from the serps. When i check the index it seems to be indexed correctly when doing site:mysite.com.
I don't understand why this keeps happening, any experience with this issue? It doesn't seem to be a google dance as far as I can tell. When my other sites dance they typically just go up or down a few ranks for a couple weeks until they stabilize. Not completely fall off the search engine.
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i tried to experiment my 2 post. the first one i do daily updates for the content and the other one i intent not to update since i publish the the article and i found out that the second post has been rank in the google page. even the content has only 250 words. and the first one has 1500 words. This 2 post has the same target keywords.
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Hi
It has happened to me with new webs, I index them through Google Search Console and they appear indexed through the site: command, instead, the days disappear me from the search results. Sometimes I have tried to index them again, but I do not understand very well the reason for these sudden changes in the serps, I understand that there are test changes that google can do to better determine the positioning of it, but not that it takes you out of the serps.
Regards
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it happens to me also every time i update to add some content in my post or web page my site disappear in the serp.
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