Danny Sullivan’s Blog

I was figuring out, the other day, why my site dropped a bit in rank for certain keywords…wait, I must preface this by saying, I didn’t start wondering what was going on until a few weeks had passed…one of the mistakes that most people do is start changing things on their site right away as soon as their rank slips a bit. You should never do that, because it may just be that the search engine you’re worried about is re-indexing and shuffling things around. Your rank may slip a bit during this period, but will generally bounce back, hopefully to a better position…but, if it has gone negative, then you have to figure out what went wrong…I waited a few weeks because it was my site and I was busy, normally I would wait a week and then start investigating…I digress…

So, I noticed a few weeks ago that I had slipped down to page 3 for one of my main keywords…this has been a gradual thing…I was on page 1, then 2 and now 3…this is over the last 8 months or so. Right about now, you may be asking yourself, What does this have to do with Danny Sullivan’s Blog…I subscribe to Danny’s blog, so I get his posts by email…once in a while, I’ll make a comment if I have something relevant to add…well, the first time my rank slipped was shortly after the first time I posted a comment on Mr Sullivan’s blog…I thought nothing of it because it’s Danny Sullivan…no need to say anything else about that…but then it happened a second time…I still didn’t "really" think anything of it…using the word really here is like when a friend of mine cornered Matt Cutts at Pubcon a few years back and asked him "if duplicate content hurts a site", to which Matt replied: "It doesn’t really…", to me, that tells me it does…it’s a read between the lines thing…sorry, I was typing out loud…

So it happened a second time and now recently a third…I’m checking my site, going over things and finding little things that really shouldn’t affect it like this…so now I’m thinking: "wait, I have a common denominator here…it’s Danny Sullivan’s Blog! The Google doesn’t like Danny Sullivan, and I’m being punished because if it!"

Why don’t you like Danny Sullivan Google?? Did he spurn you at some point and now you punish people for liking his blog? All I did was read a few posts and then comment on them because I could relate to them and thought I had something to add to the story…isn’t that what you want Google, for us to add relevancy to the web?

Well, I’m sticking to my principles on this one, and will figure out how to get back on page one of your silly index!

I feel I must add this disclaimer, because undoubtedly, there will be people who believe this post to be true and that Google actually doesn’t like Danny Sullivan: Danny Sullivan’s Blog DOES NOT taint (get your head out of the gutter…at least for a few minutes) your rank. I’ve been ignoring my site, so I’m sure that is the reason for the slippage; thus, the need for continual SEO Updates!!