Too much tweaking hurt my search engine rankings – Updated
So for the past week or so I’ve been on an SEO tangent. I’m studying everything I can get my hands on, I’m running videozine.ca through every SEO tester I come across, and I’m tweaking and tweaking and tweaking until tonight I checked for my most popular term, “vhs to dvd transfers” and I had fallen off GOOGLE!
I’m not banned or anything like that, I’m just not in the top 150 for that term. Yes I went 15 layers deep before I stopped, in shock!
What was showing up in the GOOGLE rankings is a two day old version. The robot must have come by a few days ago and spidered my site. I’ll have to wait another seven days now to see an improvement in my rankings! I’m NOT going to do anymore search engine optimizing for a month or so to see if my latest fixes take.
Damn I forgot how frustrating SEO can be!
Update - When I checked this morning I was back in my usual #6 slot. I’m wondering if Larry and Serge are investing in de-fibulators for all the Search Engine Optimizers who wake up one morning to find their listing gone! I’m still going to lay off the SEO for a while though!
