Hard Lessons Learned... What's yours?

[HMCOE]

So I got a whole lot of help these past two weeks and my rankings have been skyrocketing. Then I decided to start working on the on-page SEO in the lowest category of meaning, specifically on long-tail URLs. So I shortened a few of my best keyword pages so they can be fully indexed...

Let's just say that I neglected to remember I had built over 2 years some 30+ PR4-6 links to these pages. Rankings for these keywords dropped from 1-2 US listings to non-existent.

Lesson Learned. But I'm still smirking

What was your big lesson/mistake in the past week?

[Debdulal]

_Ha ha ,.. nice to know that you have lost the rankings .. but still there is way to recover by doing 301 redirect .. yeah I can remember the day when I did a horrible mistake. I changed all the files from html to php. And when I rank report, I realized that I have done a wonderful thing. Not a single page was in first 10 pages of Google. What was a remarkable achievement.   _

[AndreVanKets]

Bumbed!!

We uploaded over 150 new product pages, and after 2 weeks Google had still not indexed them. After a few hours of trying to figure it out, all the new pages had a canonical link to the parent page (it used the parent page template)

We removed the canonical tag, but we are still waiting!

Reminder to self: Check all technical stuffs when publishing new pages!

[HMCOE]

I'll bet you won't do that again

[HMCOE]

I'll bet you won't do that again

[HMCOE]

That's a good one! One of my clients did that too on a regular basis. After we found the tag they got over 500 new pages ranking very high, and of course we were credited with the improvement, so that was a nice thank you check