Site not on Google for two main keywords

  • My website, https://www.gas-mileage-enhancers.com, has been up since 2005 in html. At the beginning of April of 2012, I converted it to WordPress so I could add a blog. The original html site was already doing well for its two main keywords, ‘gas mileage’ and ‘best gas mileage’, and even better after the conversion. Three weeks later, at the end of April, my site was nowhere to be found for either keyword. It’s #1 and #2 on a Google search for ‘gas mileage enhancers’, not one of the keywords. Any ideas?

    Should I go back to the html version and use Google blogger instead? Does Google favor its own blogging program over WordPress?

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  • Phil

    (@owendevelopment)

    This is the wrong forum to be asking this. SEO is nothing to do with WordPress troubleshooting. Try an SEO forum for more helpful advice.

    That said, switching the site to WordPress from HTML will only have affected it if the content/meta/sitemaps/page titles/urls changed.

    Thread Starter ppinoski

    (@ppinoski)

    Thanks for answering so quickly. It’s not the switch that did it, the problem didn’t happen until 3 weeks later, I think when Google allegedly changed their algorithms.

    Even if this is an SEO issue, I was wondering if someone else with a WordPress blog had the same problem. The site didn’t just go down in the rankings, it disappeared. (are we sure that’s SEO?)

    Based on Google’s Web Master tools, it seems like something is blocking my site from being indexed. I’ve been looking at .htaccess and robots.txt and everything seems OK. I was wondering if there are any other files within the WordPress directory I should be looking at.

    You are not using Permalinks..turn them on and then use Google Webmaster Tools to re-index your site. I suggest including a proper sitemap.

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