findtim
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WELL, i thought i'd do an experiment but went a little overboard so now i'm going to have to spend time fixing it.
i refitted 40 sites and thought " ohh i'll come back later and sort out the title tag...."
well, google has dropped the sites like a hot sausage on a cold day, they have almost disapeared !
i KNOW this is the issue because its the only thing that has really changed and the sites that i haven't refitted yet have held their ground.
So this leads to an interesting stage 2, i'll go put the old title tag back in and see if they jump back into position?
so thats 40 top 3 ranking sites that just disappeared !!!, thankfully they are mine but geez i'd be even more spewing if it was clients.
ALSO, today i was discussing a website with another dnt member and i said " ohh , have a look at this site...." but for the life of me it didn't show up on google and its ALWAYS been top3, i tried sooooo many search terms but still no website so i had to try to remember the name as its not a good domain name, so i had to actually type the URL in to finally get to the domain ! only to see it had been refitted, now this has lost ALLLL its rankings and this is a directory that people are paying to be on.... i'd hate to be that designer who just dropped 100 businesses on a directory to the 15th page of google !!
so now i'm up for a few hours of fixing so the message is test, change, wait, then slowly change some more.
it was a good lesson just hope they all come back, lets see how long it takes for them to come back!
tim
i refitted 40 sites and thought " ohh i'll come back later and sort out the title tag...."
well, google has dropped the sites like a hot sausage on a cold day, they have almost disapeared !
i KNOW this is the issue because its the only thing that has really changed and the sites that i haven't refitted yet have held their ground.
So this leads to an interesting stage 2, i'll go put the old title tag back in and see if they jump back into position?
so thats 40 top 3 ranking sites that just disappeared !!!, thankfully they are mine but geez i'd be even more spewing if it was clients.
ALSO, today i was discussing a website with another dnt member and i said " ohh , have a look at this site...." but for the life of me it didn't show up on google and its ALWAYS been top3, i tried sooooo many search terms but still no website so i had to try to remember the name as its not a good domain name, so i had to actually type the URL in to finally get to the domain ! only to see it had been refitted, now this has lost ALLLL its rankings and this is a directory that people are paying to be on.... i'd hate to be that designer who just dropped 100 businesses on a directory to the 15th page of google !!
so now i'm up for a few hours of fixing so the message is test, change, wait, then slowly change some more.
it was a good lesson just hope they all come back, lets see how long it takes for them to come back!
tim