I can't believe it.
I got a site to top 10 in google for a very competitive term (30 mill + competing pages with good budget).
I held the place for several weeks. Then, as a result of the success, google goes deeper in the site.
And low and behold, it finds a link to index.html and not to domain.com/ (like it should be).
One fucking link. ONE... that is all it took.
Google now lists domain.com/ and domain.com/index.html
But that isn't why I'm bitching. It now considers index.html as the canonical (original) and I dropped the site from page one to page 3!
Of course I'm now using the new canonical tag, as well as taking out that fucking link I missed.
Anyway... be very, very careful. I must have removed hundreds of canonical issues on this site (with 301, robots txt and through the htaccess).
I only missed one link... ONE damn it.
P.S. I know I'll get the ranking back... but what a nasty and costly surprise... every minute off page one is money lost.
I got a site to top 10 in google for a very competitive term (30 mill + competing pages with good budget).
I held the place for several weeks. Then, as a result of the success, google goes deeper in the site.
And low and behold, it finds a link to index.html and not to domain.com/ (like it should be).
One fucking link. ONE... that is all it took.
Google now lists domain.com/ and domain.com/index.html
But that isn't why I'm bitching. It now considers index.html as the canonical (original) and I dropped the site from page one to page 3!
Of course I'm now using the new canonical tag, as well as taking out that fucking link I missed.
Anyway... be very, very careful. I must have removed hundreds of canonical issues on this site (with 301, robots txt and through the htaccess).
I only missed one link... ONE damn it.
P.S. I know I'll get the ranking back... but what a nasty and costly surprise... every minute off page one is money lost.
