Reply To: Rankings drop after adding new page

This is interesting… I noticed this happen on some of my smaller static sites (< 100 pages) where I use a sidenav area to list like the latest 20 article titles or similar. I add a new article plus a nav listing for the title to get it to index faster and notice a drop in the serps for the main KWs the site is targeting. I just put it down to experiencing a little serp dance because of the new material on the site. But now that you mention in happens on WP, it might be something to think about. New pages list in the sidebar if you have the “pages” widget active (and plenty of WP users do), but new posts don’t (unless you have the “latest posts” widget active, which most WP don’t). I wonder if when indexing new content on a site, the G-bot sees the new page title as new a link on the homepage and causes a temporary serps drop. Doesn’t seem to happen on larger sites (> 200 pages).