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Search Engine Blues

June 3rd, 2008 by Andy Didyk

Time to ask for some advice…

Starting last month, I have suddenly gone from about 35%-40% of the traffic to this site coming from search engines to almost zero. A complete flat-line starting in early May.

I’ve used Webmaster Tools to diagnose things, and everything appears to be running fine. I’ve submitted my XML sitemap, recently (within the past 3 days) simplified my permalink structure to be more search engine friendly, and disabled the “All in One SEO Pack” for wordpress in case Google thought I was spamming them. I know that updating my permalink structure after being online for well over a year was a bit silly, but I don’t have a good deal of links that are to specific posts at this point; most of my referrals are right to andydidyk.com, so it shouldn’t affect but a handful of old links.

I’ve also done some basic keyword analysis and my site doesn’t show up in Google search results at all, even when typing in “Andy Didyk”, which some of you readers may recall was on of my reasons for starting this site.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! And thanks to everyone who keeps accessing the site directly; I’ll get this issue fixed soon and let you know when I figure out a cause.

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