For quite a while now, 3 years or more, my sister Sharon's site has been no where to be found in Google's index. Somewhere along the way I did something to piss them off and they never forgave me. It went from a page rank of 3 or 4 (I can't remember which) down to zero in one day and the page rank never came back. It was zip, zero, nada!
I think I had the site linked to what's called 'bad neighborhoods' by Google. In other words, the site was linked to other sites that were considered to be link farms and the high and mighty Google frowns on them nasty, ol' link farms. Thinking maybe that was my crime, I decided to remove all the link pages several months ago and re-submited her site to Google.
It's still no where to be found.
Yahoo finds it. MSN finds it. Heck, even Bing finds it...but not Google. Because of this, her hits (number of visits to the site) have dwindled down to near nothing. Two, maybe 3 per day. So, in an effort to appease the king of search engines I decided a while ago to re-do the site. Add new pages, new content, pay better attention to the coding, etc.
A couple days ago I saw that Google's spider crawled the site. I was elated!!! I don't think that's happened in years. I'm hoping our efforts have paid off and her site will start getting lots of hits again like it used to. (Which, of course, will lead to sales!)
I haven't finished checking all the links and PayPal buttons but I was anxious to get it up. The sooner the new content is published, the sooner it will get noticed. (Or so I'm hoping anyway.)
If you care to visit, here's the link:
Crafts by Sharon
1 comment:
Hope ~
The site looks great. Good graphics. Easy to get around. I went thru the site page to page only clicking on an occasional product for close-ups and it all worked great.
Can you breathe again now?
How's the knee?
I've missed "talking" with you ~ love ~ Sherry
Post a Comment