Another silly mistake in the Download TV Free project has cost me big time. Yesterday I added the Meta data module to Drupal so as to update the description keywords Meta tags on the home page in an effort to encourage the Google spider to re-index my home page using actual site content rather than the default Drupal text (see earlier posts).
At the same time I changed the page title from “Home” to “Free TV Downloads” but because I have the SEO module installed, it changed the home page alias as well. What this meant is that, because this is the home page, Drupal was still looking for the page named “home” when showing the home page when accessing www.downloadtvfree.net but because it was renamed Drupal was re-directing to a 404 Page not found page.
So with a real stroke of bad luck, Google finally decides to re-index my page some time last night when the home page was indicating a 404 Page not found, so what does Google do? It throws the site completely out of the index, no more first page results, in fact no more appearance on any page, even an info search. Aarrrrgg, I could spit fire right now!
So I have now updated the Drupal home page to point to the newly named page “free-tv-downloads” instead of “home”. How long it will take for Google to index the site again, well that is one of the SEO mysteries, but hopefully, when it does it will have better text in the SERP and perhaps a higher ranking.
Got to stay positive and beleive that Good things come out of expensive life lessons. Hopefully my next post will be saying that we are back on the First page.
Scorp
Filed under: Download Tv Free, Search Engine Optimization | Tagged: cms, drupal, SEO
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