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Title: Joomla Killed my clout on google??- Or did I goof when I installed?
Post by: HoTmetal on January 13, 2006, 12:03:13 PM
Ok, I know sites fluctuate in the search engines, but my size hit an all time low with a big fat ZERO "0" in google's page rank. Now my site never sat very high but it has ALWAYs been a 3 or a 4.http://www.urltrends.com/viewtrend.php?url=http://www.lifeoncampus.com Also, my site would hit the 1st page of google with about 10-15 key words, now it only does it for my domain name.http://www.silktide.com/index.php?node=18444&form_refresh=0&form2=1&f2_url=www.lifeoncampus.com&pagetree=&editSessionid=&objectid=

I used joomla's back end & customized each page to have its own keywords & meta description, but this doesn't seem to help... Anyone else have this problem, & or care to share some ideas??Thanks in advance rickC
Title: Re: Joomla Killed my clout on google??- Or did I goof when I installed?
Post by: chadness on January 13, 2006, 12:15:26 PM
Any changes you make can really hurt your page rank, and it takes a while to climb back up.  Have you looked at the Joomla thread about SEO?
Title: Re: Joomla Killed my clout on google??- Or did I goof when I installed?
Post by: HoTmetal on January 13, 2006, 01:05:02 PM
Quote from: chadness on January 13, 2006, 12:15:26 PM
Any changes you make can really hurt your page rank, and it takes a while to climb back up.  Have you looked at the Joomla thread about SEO?
**EDIT....**
No I didn't check it  out yet.... I'll look into it. I thinking it may have to do with me turing off the SEO so that I can install the SMF arcade. before I turned it off, my site was still at its normal rank.. Also I'm using 3.19a, with SMF 1.1rc1. not 3.20 with rc2. I want to hold off on the upgrade until 1.1 Final...
Title: Re: Joomla Killed my clout on google??- Or did I goof when I installed?
Post by: chadness on January 13, 2006, 02:20:11 PM
That would do it.  Your rank is page specific, so it no longer sees the same pages.
Title: Re: Joomla Killed my clout on google??- Or did I goof when I installed?
Post by: HoTmetal on January 13, 2006, 03:33:37 PM
Quote from: chadness on January 13, 2006, 02:20:11 PM
That would do it.  Your rank is page specific, so it no longer sees the same pages.
So do you think I should look for a joomla/mambo arcade mod/com ? Is there a good one out there? You know one that keeps scores?
Thanks again...rickC
Title: Re: Joomla Killed my clout on google??- Or did I goof when I installed?
Post by: Kindred on January 13, 2006, 04:08:15 PM
yeah...  there used to be a really good arcade component for Mambo...  PNFlashGames...
Title: Re: Joomla Killed my clout on google??- Or did I goof when I installed?
Post by: HoTmetal on January 13, 2006, 04:33:45 PM
Quote from: Kindred on January 13, 2006, 04:08:15 PM
yeah...  there used to be a really good arcade component for Mambo...  PNFlashGames...


Ok I'll give that a try...thanks again