Site Ranking drop.
Just a couple weeks ago I blogged about my site going from page one, position #2 behind the leader, Trip Advisor, to page 6 in a short amount of time. It seemed to me that google had lost interest in my site. So I thought my site must have become boring and stale. And I wrote a blog about that. I could not figure out why I had dropped in the rankings so fast. What does google want?
Well, I had a good read today on SEO from numerous sources on the net. And Ive come up with one answer as to what google might NOT want, and penalize you for it.
Ever since I started almost 4 months ago I have been submitting my sites almost every day through Webmaster tools and through settings under sitemapXML, to google bing, and ASR. I think a lot of you might be doing what I do and are doing the same thing.
Today, in my read, a man that claims to be an expert, made a statement that"BY SUBMITTING YOUR SITES ON A DAILY BASIS, GOOGLE CONSIDERS THIS SPAMMING AND PENALIZE YOU FOR IT. ONCE A MONTH IS HIS SUGGESTION."
Now I do not remember in the training, which is correct. I thought you would submit when you make a blog, post, page or anything you add that is a major change in your site. I don't know which one is right, but I do know I had a major drop in google rankings and this may be why.
I wanted too share and get individual results and opinion. After all page one is where we all want to be and strive for.
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Wordpress also pings Google to let them know that new content has been published so that technically you really do not need to worry about submitting the new content to webmaster tools. Also if you are publishing on a regular basis the spyders will come by your site more often to get it indexed faster without you submitting it.
The last two weeks I have stopped submitting them because I was out of town but noticed that Google was indexing them within a day or two anyway because I post on a regular basis.
Also by chance have you checked to see in webmaster tools if there are any problems or crawl errors with your site? I know bing webmaster also has SEO recommendations to make sure that you are using alt tags etc. Might be worth seeing if there is anything else going on which could be hurting your ranking besides just the normal fluctuating which is common place for the first few weeks/months.
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A new sitemap I only submit when there is significant change on my page, for instance a deleted page. Other than that I let the bots do their work as specified in sitemap settings.
Cheers:-)
