Hello everyone, greetings from the beautiful Big Bear Lake in southern California. My apologies for the lack of updates, but I’ve been spending the week out here relaxing.
Today I just wanted to follow up one of my previous posts about being deindexed from Google.
At this point in time, 2 of my well-performing sites, and 1 site which has been performing poorly have all been deindexed by Google.
If you read the blog here, you were able to follow my mood over the course of the next few days, since I was quite distraught by the whole prospect of running my sites with no Google behind them.
I just wanted to point out to you all however, that there are other guests at the party besides Google. Specifically, I have done something this week which I have never had to do before now. I have gone out and tried to lure Yahoo! and MSN search engines to crawl and index my pages.
While before, getting into Google was the pinnacle of possible success, now I am realizing that yes, of course I intend to get re-indexed at some point (hopefully!), but why waste precious commissions in the meanwhile?
By courting Yahoo! and MSN, I am hoping to regain at least a respectable portion of my daily traffic I was gaining on Google to my deindexed sites, as well as bolster the existing traffic of a few of my sites which remain indexed.
One of the things that I both love and hate about Niche Store Building with BANS or any other platform is the constant challenge and diversity of ways to succeed. It keeps you on your toes, but also is brutally honest with you at times when you cannot afford the time or energy to comply.
Anyone have any Yahoo! or MSN tips? We would all love to hear them!
