(Entry was posted by Oliver Harriso on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 03/31/2022).

What could be the cause of this?

Hey there, hope you are doing well over there, I recently published an article on a zero competition keyword, i was testing, actually I just got the keyword from my head, and the article ranked number one on google for the keyword, I checked the article ranking and found out it completely dissapeared from the serps, not even in the top 100, I didn`t make any changes to website and I don`t have a manual penalty in google search console, what could be the cause of this?

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Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

David Gossage: If it was a zero competition keyword which you were testing, could Google have decided that it had no value and de-indexed it?

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Christine Hansen: It takes some time for Google to find the right fit. The right fit is now.

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