My story and my first post, so be nice With adsense in mind, I started a site about (SOMETHING) in Blog format last November. We used pLog as a system and everything was smooth. Google started indexing pages really fast and I reached top three and top ten results rapidly within a couple of months with lots (yes lots) of keywords. In February, when traffic was higher (around 3000, 5000 visits a day) pLog crashed servers (eat resources) and we had to change to WordPress. What we do was convert all posts from November to February into HTML, and started with WP from zero for new posts. Now, (beginning March) since a couple of days ago, the site suddenly dropped from Search Results for main keywords (from #1 for a keyword it went to #300). As website content I use pasted articles from Wikipedia, with a link to the source, related to the post I was publishing. From your experience, what is wrong with all of this? 1. The change from pLog to Wordpress? 2. XHTML into HTML conversion of 80% of the pages? 3. The Use of ‘duplicated’ content from Wikipedia? 4. Is something wrong with Google? (i.e. google dance, etc) The most strange part of this story, is that revenues in adsense haven´t dropped. With the tenth to impressions, I am still within averages. I have heard from a couple of webmasters friends of mine that their sites dropped in rankings the same day my site drop (8th march) and they have totally different websites. Have you noted something wrong with Google in the past couple of days? Would love to hear your comments/experiences. It´s a little difficult for me to write in English, sorry about that. Cheers. Pablo
Hi No, domain remains the same. With pLog, URL structure was: this_is_an_example_page.html in the conversion into HTML, this was maintained. Now, with WordPress, URL structure is: /this_is_an_example_page/
I noticed I can´t still place my url here. So I will give you more info about my site. I have 60.100 pages indexed by google, and 33 backlinks. Also, in the last 2 weeks I sow alternatively PR4 and PR0 on index page. Now, it´s 0
So the URL structure HAS changed. I think that modrewrite is what you would use to specify that a request for this_is_an_example_page.html should redirect to /this_is_an_example_page/. Links in google to your old pages are not going to those pages anymore. That would seem to be the problem, from what I see.
or you could simply go to your wordpress control panel, options, Permalinks and in the custom structure use the following : %postname%.html and you're back with the same old url structure.
I think it was misunderstanded. In the conversion into HTML, URL structure was maintained. So, all post until February HAS the same structure they had when I use pLog this_is_an_example_page.html Only all new posts has the new structure /this_is_an_example_page/ Site URL is: http://www.flyinglobe.com See link structure in all current posts. Now, go to 'Our Archive' link at the top, and navigate all old posts there to see past structure. In this way, I think that links in Google to my old pages go to these pages.
OK, maybe I'm smoking crack or something, but I went to your earliest post (according to your archives), http://www.flyinglobe.com/2006/02/25/post-hurricane-katrina-images-available-on-google-earth/ and that url does not end with .html So unless your archives are messed up or something, it has changed.
No This is the earliest post... from Wordpress (or just the first post using wordpress) To see previous posts (the very firsts posts) click on 'Our Archive' link at the top of the page. It takes here: http://www.flyinglobe.com/our_archive/ Please, disregard links at the right (they are the newest) grax
this may be because of google updating its page rank , and all of its datacentere have not yet updated ur sites page rank ....
Hey guys. First of all many thanks for all your valuable information. I want to tell you I am happy because pages impressions in adsense for my site are slowly coming back to normality (and earnings as well!) I am still unable to see my site in search results with my keywords, but it seems that trafics are there.