A drop in SERP after following webmaster guidelines [on hold]
- by digiwig
So here's a puzzle for all you SEO gurus out there.
I recently launched my own site. I had target keywords which were ranking very well for about 1 month, within the top five and even appearing in first place.
In an attempt to maintain good positioning, I followed guidelines by
adding robots.txt,
an xml sitemap
redirecting non-www to www
redirecting index.php to root domain
adding htaccess 301 redirect for old pages
I added rich snippets
created a google+ account, verified my picture to appear,
I went through each of the webmaster issues with duplicate
titles and meta descriptions and improved header tag document
outlines
i even created a few more blog posts to keep the content
freshing and moving.
So now my website appears on page 2 with my target keywords - and all because I followed the guidelines.
What is happening? I see competitors with stagnant content superglued to position 1.