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I hadn't updated it since January 17, 2005 (yup, know the exact date).
And yet, there it sat, occupying a top 10 spot for a coveted keyword pair. Month in, month out, year after year, update after update, Top Ten.
Oh, sure, once in a while it would drop into the top 20, but it would come back. Shambling up the ranks in it's zombie shuffle.
But now, this latest update dropped it down to 250(ish).
Bing and Yahoo still love it. Top 5 in both of them.
I'm not sure why, but losing the Google Love for that site makes me kinda sad. If I actually cared about that site, really, or it made money (something it was never designed to do), I would have updated it.
But still...
I guess it was my middle finger to the world of Google and the kings of SEO. Here's this rinky-dink, 100page site, not monetized, that's actually about (keyword keyword). The only things going for it were clean, static HTML, and, you know, actually being about the topic.
I'll get over it, I know. I'll even renew the (almost but not quite free) hosting. But losing that top 10, for that site... It hurts more than it would for sites that actually make money, for some reason.
[edited by: lawman at 11:31 am (utc) on July 28, 2009]
