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Why Google de-rank a website.
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Hi, I was inspecting a website which is covering the topic of best wheelbarrow of 2021, it is a new website and and starts ranking on google.
But, after few days it got de-rank automatically and Moz is also not showing any result to that.
I was wandering why this just happened and what should I do if I made my website and will not face this kind of situation?
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Looks like a pretty spammy site. Sometimes a spam site can rank for a time using black hat tactics, but is eventually discovered and taken down. Rankings also can fluctuate naturally for many reasons-- SEOs usually see a "honeymoon period" for new pages, where they rank really highly when they are first published, before dropping in rankings after Google sees how the page performs in the SERPs.
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