Comments on: Spurned by Google, ignored by all

By: FotoBlog

FotoBlog — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:42:08 +0000

Hey Donncha,
don’t know if you fall in the problem again, but your sitemap generator plugin is 3.0b1, the current version with several bugfixes and a lot improved is the 3.0b6.
Download? Here: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2006/01/07/google-sitemap-generator-for-wordpress-3-beta

hope url don’t break the page.

ciao

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:15:42 +0000

Hi.

My site is over a year old, and I got on 1st and 2nd page results on Google for all of my keywords (even without many back links).
Then I have created and submitted Google site-map, with top priority for main page (it vent like that 1, 0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 0.6, 0.6, 0.5,) And then I was drooped to about 10th page results for 90% of my keywords.
Thinking that something is wrong with the site-map I have submitted another one, that vent like that (0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, for all pages) that didn’t help either.
So I deleted entirely site-map from my server, hoping that I can at least get back on 2nd page results, as I was before without sitemaps, especially now when I have about 50 good back links and PR-2, and that also didn’t help.
I opened Google Webmaster Tools account and Google Analytics along with submitting the Site-map, and I found a lot of posts from people that did the same thing and they also got dropped right after doing so?!

I’m really confused right now, please help me! Thank you.

By: kt

kt — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:44:20 +0000

personally I feel search engines behave rather strangely. Like another reader said, their should be some novel way of actually differentiating genuine quality content from fake pseudo garbage on serch engine rankings.

Just my take though

kt
http://www.myhalt.com

By: duvy

duvy — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:16:30 +0000

I have this problem at least twice a year, even before I started making sitemaps. I’m not sure what causes it, but google is very fickle and there are so many sites out there using repeated content over and over and they seem to be at the top of googles ranking. I also saw a site that sells fully ready websites aimed at scamming google and I see the same content on 100’s of websites, so I wonder why they are so quick to punish sites with original content like this one.

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By: Donncha

Donncha — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:53:22 +0000

There is quite a lot of interesting material on http://inphotos.org/ I’ll have you know!

By: drmike

drmike — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:49:01 +0000

“This morning I finally saw referrers return to normal.”

Don’t we tell folks over in wp.com land that they need to write interesting material to draw people in and not rely on search engine trickery?

By: Graziano

Graziano — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:10:32 +0000

This update has been done twice, I believe both the first time that it happens, for me Google is changing methods.

By: Donncha

Donncha — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:21:40 +0000

Oh yes! Rejoice! Finally inphotos is back in it’s rightful place and basking in the glory of Google’s search engine database! This morning I finally saw referrers return to normal.

Only two weeks. Bah!

By: drmike

drmike — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:19:53 +0000

I actually worked out good. I went up to a 6 from a 4.