Plummeted from No.1 to No.19 in a week
This “bad” news is not unexpected. But, how come the website could be no. 1 this week and dropped to no. 19 the following.
One quick and easy excuse would be Yahoo algorithm is faulty!!! Is it really like that?
Ok, here’s the true story. The server hosting http://www.indexfuturestrading.com/ was down for 3 days just prior to my discovery that it went to no. 1 on Yahoo search. And it took me another 2 days to fixed up all the pages before the website was up again on another server. Total of 5 days off-line - ranking sure suffered!
On top of that, the new web hosting server has different configuration and so I could not just restore the files from the backup but had to rebuild all of the TE pages. In the process of rebuilding, I changed the layout and move the link to the TE generated pages deeper into the directory.
The homepage was also redesigned. I listened to the “experts” advice and remove all the “hidden” links to the TE pages on the homepage. Then this week, the ranking plummeted from no. 1 to no. 19.
However,we must understand that this website is barely 3 months old and already made it to the top 20!