Set geographic target
*Sigh* - Last few days the ranking of a lab site went down particularly in google, not in msn or yahoo search results. I totally forgot about the Geographic target country that I changed using the google webmaster tools.
When I noticed that my website wasn’t even visible for most popular keywords it used to, I thought it happened due to recent permalinks change in my wordpress blog (the site is arrahman.net) and used a plug-in to do 301 permanent redirects.
I just got up because of a dream (3:10 morning now) - because of past few hours - the numbers 3, 0 and 1 are flying like stars around my head. This 3:10 reminds me of 3:10 to yuma movie by James Mangold. 301 had become like a number 23 movie. The search for 3:10 brings you most sites related to the movie, results that have 3/10, 3,10 etc., and some of bible related sites. I think any number search with a colon will bring up a bible related website.
Ok topic is going somewhere else, a new cell had born in the place of a dead cell in my brain I guess and joined the dots that I changed the geographic target few weeks back to some other country. I changed it back to be “Do not associate a geographic location with this site”. In another few days should get to know the SERP’s.
Lesson Learnt: Note down when any SEO work is done, even if it is minor - I always do that (can I say that now?) - so I haven’t always done that - but few setting changes needs to be noted and when something is changed had to think what are all possible things could happen because of that. Many business website owners ask me that the ranking got affected on their website completely or on a particular page or sometimes that their website is not even listed.
You could be up and down in ladder because of the competition and your SEO strategies, but you will not vanish just like that, if not for a mistake. And in an SEO work, keeping track of what is changed/created is very important.
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.
