My Wordpress blog dropped suddenly after I installed plugins

dropped from page 1 to page 56

[rashe18]

Hello all ,

I am frustrated but i will try to explain my problem:

I have a wordpress blog with 3000 unique daily visitors.

Before 10 days i installed 2 plugins in my blog:

1. All in One SEO Pack
2. meta tags

In the last 10 days i noticed a retreat in my daily visitors:

3000 > 2500 > 2000 > 1500 > 1400

Then i got worried and tried to check what is the problem.

After a siple examination i noticed many links in my site dropped dramatically , from the page 1 to the page 56!

My page rank stills (4).

I also noticed yesterday that the page titles (which can seen above in the browser)disappeared.

Today i deleted these plugins. I got my page titles back , but my links in google still away in the page 56.

I am frustrated , i checked the statics in my blog , it looks my visitors today will be 1000!

From 3000 to 1000 through 6-7 days. Never happened to me.

70% of my visitors come from google.

I am being working hard in my site for 3 years.Is it the end? should prepare a funeral to my site?

Thanks.

[tedster]

I'd guess that the SEO plug-in made significnt changes across your site and Google will need time to re-evaluate everything. Large scale changes can often have that effect.

The disappearance of the title element is often a sign of new spidering that is not yet complete. So I'd advise you not schedule a funeral for your site any time soon.

[followgreg]

this reminds me that I want to perform a complete makeover of the URL structure on a couple of site...it became almost impossible to manage with the current urls.

tedster >> do you recommend slow changes then? when possible of course - even with 301 everywhere?

[rashe18]

Thanks tedster.

1. How many time do you think it takes google to reevaluate my site?

2. What do you suggest to do meanwhile? just to wait?

3. Is there a method to check if my links are going up again?

4. Will my links advance from page 56 > 55 > 54 ... or it will returns to its normal situation all at once according to the PR ?

Sorry about my panic questions , but this issue disturbs me a lot.

I can't sleep.

Thanks again.

[Agama]

I had the same issue with that plugin some months ago. Had to check each article manually because the plugin would not use the custom meta description I was using for each post before I installed the plugin.

I gained my position back in less than 2-3 weeks.

Good luck with yours

[rashe18]

Agama: It is nice to hear you got your real rank again.

Can you explain please how to check each article manually?

Thanks.

[Bones]

The SEO All In One Pack plugin tries to avoid duplicate content by adding:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />

...on the monthly archive and category pages. So if that option was enabled and it was those pages that were previously ranking well and driving traffic to your site - that'd explain your pages being dropped and the traffic hit you've taken.

Sit back and wait. :-)

[rashe18]

Now everything is back after uninstalling this plugin (seo all in one).

Google spiders are making their job now.

It was suspenseful experience!

[kidder]

What did you hope to gain with the plugin? It sounds to me like your right back where you started correct?

I have installed this plugin on several of our blogs and we are just waiting now to see how google treats the new page information - looks good so far! Is anyone else using this plugin with good results?

[Simsi]

I installed it on a new site 2 months ago and all I can add is that it was a brand new domain, hit Google quickly and has maintained good rankings constantly for the past 2 months - not even any sandbox issues - so I rate it personally, although you need to be careful how it's configured IMO.

[edited by: Simsi at 7:57 am (utc) on Aug. 26, 2007]