When i wake up today, had my breakfirst. A nice very fresh morning. And felt sleepy after a long sleep yesterday. I go online, and take a look at google, and search for news and maybe some writting material for my review blogs here. What else, i would like to check my new website ranking in google as well. So, i try to check for “hostgator review“.. which is previously in top 5 ranking. Today, its fall to second page. Which i realised there is definately something wrong. However other keyword for this site is still fine, and not falling.. yet!
What is this, “google sandbox”.. or kind of joke from search engine. Not to panic, i get my brain connected and startup. Check through what changes i carried out for the pass week. I realised here is the list of what i did:
- adding new content to hostgator review blog
- submit this hosting review blog to 700 web directory
- paid for some directory listing as well
- change new wordpress theme for this blog.
I check through all four changes i did above, and conclude that item 4th is the cause of problem. So, i going to fix this. Open up the theme source code, and debugging it for 15 minutes. After all, i realised that the footer text on the theme which is having bgcolor set to light blue. Same time having a front background image with nice shadow effect. And some footer credits note for the original author if the theme design. Here is the problem, the credits text is set to light blue as well. Same color for bgcolor and text is bad thing for google. They think this is keyword spamming. By the way, those are not any keyword that i aim for my site, just that google bot is more sensitive now a day. So, i have to change the text color to white. And the background change to darker blue. This will stop the google sandbox effect. And for the page header, same goes to the menu tab.
For those that having problem to ranked at google, you might need to check this as well. I know this will works, because i having the same problem once at my other website, and its solved the same way. 