Google Sitemap: Not recommended for Material Boy’s SEO
I have been experimenting on SEO for Material Boy to earn a few bucks this vacation. I have other experimental sites too working their way up in the search engine ladder. A few days ago Material Boy, my site, ranked top 8 in the search for Material Boy in Google. Although some of the posts didn’t index as fast, I had very high hopes considering that since the main index site of Material Boy ranked high on Google, it will then let the spiders crawl further into my blog.
Everything changed when I used google sitemap. I installed a sitemap script for Material Boy, thinking that it would boost the SEO of the site. I then registered the site to Google Sitemaps then added the sitemap. A day later, I found that Material Boy was not even indexed in Google anymore. Instead of being a Search Engine Optimization agent, it totally removed my site index page from Google. I decided that this wasn’t a good idea, so i automatically removed Material Boy from sitemaps and deleted every trace of it.
Next day, my site was once again in the first page of “Material Boy” search page in Google. Not only was it in the 8th, but it went up to 6th. Material Boy was already ranked 6th on Google even if it only was its 3rd day.
I gave sitemap another chance to SEO my blog. To my dismay, the same incident occured. I removed it again from sitemap, but voila… until now, Material Boy is nowhere to be found in Google Search. The problem is, not only did it affect the experimental blog, it also caused the other sites within the domain to decrease its ranking.
I was looking for a quick fix, but what i got was a whooping SEO disaster.
Since i’m guessing that Material Boy’s Google Search issue is gonna be problematic for a longer time, i took the opportunity to change the blog template. Only to find out that the template i used wasn’t recommended for money-making blogs. It wasn’t optimized for indexing. Oh well, at least the site looks good.
October 7th, 2007 at 3:23 am
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