Article linking to my post kicks it from the search results.

[EdBen]

Hi I have been trying to get a article to rank on the term:

"help your child do well in school" in the Google UK. Now I was doing okay the article went from 43rd to 17th. Until I got mentioned in the huffington post. Then my result disappeared from the listings and the huffington appeared in 35th position.

The article I'm trying to rank is: http://www.schoolguide.co.uk/blog/10-proven-ways-to-help-your-child-do-well-at-school

The Huffington posts is: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/emilyjane-clark/five-things-that-will-not_b_5693827.html

It's really annoying because this is the type of link building I thought Google really wants. Does anyone know why this would happen and any suggestions of how to proceed?

[spencerhjustice]

I don't think that would be relevant since it's not a copy of the article and any way, it just references it.

I also doubt that the huffington post does rel canonicals because that would lose them traffic.

[Kingof5]

Don't know their policy on this, but did you get a rel canonical from them?

[EdBen]

thanks eyepaq

[eyepaq]

Give it some time. It's usual that a high domain authority link will "sunk" the target for a short period of time. Google even has a patent related with this. It should pop back up - it can also take 30 days or so you still have some time to .. just wait.

That's just one response for this - it coud be somethig else too though ...