About a month ago, I was showing up on pages 2-3 of Google search for the phrase make money blogging. Page 2-3 isn’t brilliant, and I know that phrase isn’t as popular as some people might think. But when you think about it, make money blogging relates to my site and my blog was and is still pretty new so I was extremely happy. I also ranked decent for other make money phrases as well as searches relating to blogging advice and tips.
Now I’m a bit of SERP’s (search engine results pages) geek, I’m constantly checking where my blogs rank for different keywords and phrases. Over the last month I noticed that Funk13 was falling down the list the the phrase ”make money blogging”. Page 5,10,20, eventually I was getting to page 30 and still not finding my blog. My first thought was maybe my recent PR update had caused this, I’ve read about people loosing traffic after receiving a page rank. Baffled by what was going on I decided to post about my problem on the Google webmaster tools forum, luckily before I went ahead with my rant, I installed a new plugin. It was in the plugin section I realised the the best plugin on the planet, All in One SEO was deactivated. I quickly gave myself a slap round the face. (Just joking I’m not a self harmer.) and reactivated it.
This goes to show the importance of your homepage keywords, the way your blogs page titles are set up, meta keywords and noindex sections. Now, if you’ve been living in a cave for the last 10 years? You might not have heard of theAll in One SEO plugin. This plugin is a God send for WordPress blogs. It basically makes your blog super search engine freindly. If you haven’t installed this beauty yet, forget about reading this and go and download it now!
Now that I’ve reactivated the plugin, I’m hoping I will start climbing back up the ladder and I’ll be getting a decent amount of search engine traffic again. Do yourselves a favor and make sure you check your plugin pages regularly. Don’t be a dumb shit like me 
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May 28th, 2008 at 5:40 am
Ohhh, that’s a shame
Good job it’s sorted now though. I use Text pattern so I can’t use the all in one seo pack. It sounds like a great tool, I wish I could use it too.