The alert was a standard “Google Alert” that I set up to notify me…as far as I know, this indicates when Google actually crawls my site and notices a new article, no? So I figured it just took them 5 days to notice and index the new article… If my understanding is incorrect, someplease please fill me in.
Gamblingshares, what is “SM”? An xml sitemap? I’ve got that already… Also using Author Rank…
Any other ideas?