I made some changes to the permalinks in my wordpress settings and low and behold big Google gave me the big “Smack Down”. Lost all my rankings again in Google because of it.

Looks like Google is having to re-establish the url addresses, because after doing a site search in Google it shows that a lot of my pages have been updated 12 to 17 hours ago; pages that I haven’t touched in months and months. The only change is the url. Why did I change the url? Good question. It was because a so called SEO “Guru” said that it was conducive to good Google rankings. Which worked the oppose for me. Anyhoo, to be fair I think he ment to make these sort of changes when you first set up your wordpress blog.

So does this mean that big Google has to re-evaluate each page again? Possibly, given the location to the information has changed. I’m pretty sure though that Googles Algorythm is smart enough to know what has actually transpired here and that my rankings will return to normal soon. Soon is sometimes not nearly soon enough aye.

Well you live and learn. Anyway, if your are looking for a wordpress or SEO expert…”bags NOT me”!

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