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MrBean · 03-11-2006, 11:53 AM

My story and my first post, so be nice

With adsense in mind, I started a site about (SOMETHING) in Blog format last November. We used pLog as a system and everything was smooth. Google started indexing pages really fast and I reached top three and top ten results rapidly within a couple of months with lots (yes lots) of keywords.

In February, when traffic was higher (around 3000, 5000 visits a day) pLog crashed servers (eat resources) and we had to change to WordPress. What we do was convert all posts from November to February into HTML, and started with WP from zero for new posts.

With pLog, URL structure was: this_is_an_example_page.html

in the conversion into HTML, this was maintained.

Now, with WordPress, URL structure is: /this_is_an_example_page/

Now, (beginning March) since a couple of days ago, the site suddenly dropped from Search Results for main keywords (from #1 for a keyword it went to #300).

As website content I use pasted articles from Wikipedia, with a link to the source, related to the post I was publishing.

From your experience, what is wrong with all of this?

1. The change from pLog to Wordpress?
2. XHTML into HTML conversion of 80% of the pages?
3. The Use of ‘duplicated’ content from Wikipedia?
4. Is something wrong with Google? (i.e. google dance, etc)

The most strange part of this story, is that revenues in adsense haven´t dropped. With the tenth to impressions, I am still within averages.

I don´t know if I can paste my url here. So I will give you more info about my site.

I have 60.100 pages indexed by google, and 33 backlinks.

Also, in the last 2 weeks I sow alternatively PR4 and PR0 on index page. Now, it´s 0

I have heard from a couple of webmasters friends of mine that their sites dropped in rankings the same day my site drop (8th march) and they have totally different websites.

Have you noted something wrong with Google in the past couple of days?

Would love to hear your comments/experiences.

It´s a little difficult for me to write in English, sorry about that.

Cheers.

Pablo

03-11-2006, 11:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
MrBean Inactive Join Date: 03-11-06 Posts: 5 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	My site on Google My story and my first post, so be nice With adsense in mind, I started a site about (SOMETHING) in Blog format last November. We used pLog as a system and everything was smooth. Google started indexing pages really fast and I reached top three and top ten results rapidly within a couple of months with lots (yes lots) of keywords. In February, when traffic was higher (around 3000, 5000 visits a day) pLog crashed servers (eat resources) and we had to change to WordPress. What we do was convert all posts from November to February into HTML, and started with WP from zero for new posts. With pLog, URL structure was: this_is_an_example_page.html in the conversion into HTML, this was maintained. Now, with WordPress, URL structure is: /this_is_an_example_page/ Now, (beginning March) since a couple of days ago, the site suddenly dropped from Search Results for main keywords (from #1 for a keyword it went to #300). As website content I use pasted articles from Wikipedia, with a link to the source, related to the post I was publishing. From your experience, what is wrong with all of this? 1. The change from pLog to Wordpress? 2. XHTML into HTML conversion of 80% of the pages? 3. The Use of ‘duplicated’ content from Wikipedia? 4. Is something wrong with Google? (i.e. google dance, etc) The most strange part of this story, is that revenues in adsense haven´t dropped. With the tenth to impressions, I am still within averages. I don´t know if I can paste my url here. So I will give you more info about my site. I have 60.100 pages indexed by google, and 33 backlinks. Also, in the last 2 weeks I sow alternatively PR4 and PR0 on index page. Now, it´s 0 I have heard from a couple of webmasters friends of mine that their sites dropped in rankings the same day my site drop (8th march) and they have totally different websites. Have you noted something wrong with Google in the past couple of days? Would love to hear your comments/experiences. It´s a little difficult for me to write in English, sorry about that. Cheers. Pablo