So I waited a few weeks, and nothing has changed…
This site is now going back to the way it was. The way it should be. Right now it’s stuck on the fourth page of Google for Bet the Super Bowl, when it used to sit in the top spot. That means that all the changes I made must have seriously hurt the site in Google’s algorithm. Which is bullshit because all the changes I made improved this site from a user prospective. But what’s the point of having a good website if no one will ever find it? So I’m changing it back to the Google friendly version which will hopefully push this site back to the top of Google’s search… All I can do now is make the change and wait and see.
There are a few changes that I’m currently considering keeping. First off, I changed the theme of this site, and while it’s still very simple, I prefer it to the way this site used to look. I know that this is a major change, and I’m going to seriously consider changing back the theme if the other things that I changed back don’t fix my ranking.
I was planning on keeping a few plug-ins, but I just decided not to. I had added about 6 plug-ins ove the last couple of months that really helped to speed up and socialize this site. I had links to this sites twitter, Facebook and Google plus pages. I also easy links that visitors could use to share my posts, but not anymore. All of that is now gone. I also got rid of the comments and the plug-ins that I used to use to help moderate the spam. No more commenting here thanks to Google.
Lastly I remove a plug-ins that actually made this site load faster and one which provided a site map for Google. You never really know what Google decided it didn’t like about this site verse what it used to, so I figured I’d just trash everything that was new with the exception of the theme. Of course if my ranking doesn’t change in another couple of weeks, this theme is going right back to the one it’s been for the last several years.
I guess the old saying is true. “If it aint broke, don’t fix it.” It took me a couple of times to learn my lesson, but now I know that I can’t really make any changes to this site going forward and expect it to rank well for betting on the Super Bowl. So since that’s the case, don’t expect there to be main changes around here in the future.
Well thanks for reading my off topic ranting for the last several weeks. I’m not exactly sure how people continue to find this site, but we’re glad that you do!
