The money site I DESTROYED - RECOVERED!
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Well, this is a lesson in what NOT to do with a site that's earning money for you. I had a site earning about $200 a month from Adsense but it was done in a little static CMS I wrote, for quick niche site deployment, instead of in Wordpress.
Thought I would migrate it to Wordpress so I could do more with it, and make it easier to sell at some point. Piece of cake, I am pretty tech savvy, hardly a problem for me. Well, here are just a couple of the things I screwed up:
- mistyped a couple of permalinks so they no longer matched those in the Google index (though I could swear I just copy-pasted them, maybe Wordpress screwed something up)
- forgot to copy the meta descriptions across into All In One SEO (important for Google SERPS listing)
- forgot to set decent Title meta tags with All In One SEO
- apparently forgot to UNBLOCK SEARCH ENGINES (Privacy) settings after deploying to a live server (though I could swear I double-checked)!!
Obviously that last one was the biggest problem, since Google has gradually deindexed my site and it no longer ranks for the key terms that were making me money!! I even had some linkbuilding going on all this time, so that's really silly! I wondered why the rankings were getting worse
OK, I am not posting this to whine - I brought it on myself, and it's not like my family is gonna go hungry now.
But because people occasionally ask on the forum whether migrating to Wordpress/changing templates etc. etc. will affect their rankings, I thought it would be interesting to post back on this thread once I see what happens with my rankings. Now I have fixed all the problems, I wonder if the site will just bounce back to its old rankings?
I will keep you posted in a few days or a week or however long it takes for Google to reassess my site And remember, be careful with your money sites kids!
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Who says you can't earn money as an eBay affiliate any more? My stats say otherwise
Who says you can't earn money as an eBay affiliate any more? My stats say otherwise
Who says you can't earn money as an eBay affiliate any more? My stats say otherwise
Who says you can't earn money as an eBay affiliate any more? My stats say otherwise