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not mine, but I just saw an interview between Andrew Warner and Andrew Fashion...and holy shit. Basically the guy was making $200K a month from a myspace layou

by vaksel 17y ago

not mine, but I just saw an interview between Andrew Warner and Andrew Fashion...and holy shit. Basically the guy was making $200K a month from a myspace layout site(was the top result on Google), felt like he was on top of the world(bought a few BMWs cash), then he decided to improve the user experience and completely redesigned the site. Well he forgot to do an htaccess redirect, and overnight he lost almost all of his traffic, since Google kicked him down to page 8, since w/o htaccess they felt he was a brand new site. Then he spent $30K buying SEO, and only got up to page 5. Then he tried to get some help by partnering up with some guy from Australia, and the guy stole his site(had access to the server), and released it as a $20 script template, so overnight there were hundreds of clones. So within a few months, he went down from making $200K a month to $5K a month. Seriously once Andrew throws up the site on mixergy, you have to go watch it.

mattmaroon 17y ago
Wait, he had a #1 result and he changed URLs or something? If so he deserves the loss.
- vaksel 17y ago
  he rewrote urls with mod rewrite, from the interview I got the idea that basically the entire site was redesigned from scratch. He was using php before, and his entire structure was the usual ?p=123
  - mattmaroon 17y ago
    Ah, yeah. I mean, call me nuts, but if I built something from scratch, owned 100% of it, got a #1 Google result, and was making $200k/mo, I'd be far too busy drinking champagne to go mess up my URLs.
    - wlievens 17y ago
      Plus, never fix what aint broken.
matt1 17y ago
completely redesigned the site along with what matt said, does this mean they put it on a new domain? why would they do that?
- vaksel 17y ago
  no same old domain, he just rewrote the urls, but since he forgot to do an htaccess redirect, Google didn't know that ?p=123 was now /template123/ So basically as far as Google was concerned, the only page that was still working from the old site was the index page, and even that was completely different.

by vaksel 17y ago

mattmaroon 17y ago

Wait, he had a #1 result and he changed URLs or something? If so he deserves the loss.

vaksel 17y ago
he rewrote urls with mod rewrite, from the interview I got the idea that basically the entire site was redesigned from scratch. He was using php before, and his entire structure was the usual ?p=123
- mattmaroon 17y ago
  Ah, yeah. I mean, call me nuts, but if I built something from scratch, owned 100% of it, got a #1 Google result, and was making $200k/mo, I'd be far too busy drinking champagne to go mess up my URLs.
  - wlievens 17y ago
    Plus, never fix what aint broken.

matt1 17y ago

completely redesigned the site along with what matt said, does this mean they put it on a new domain? why would they do that?

vaksel 17y ago
no same old domain, he just rewrote the urls, but since he forgot to do an htaccess redirect, Google didn't know that ?p=123 was now /template123/ So basically as far as Google was concerned, the only page that was still working from the old site was the index page, and even that was completely different.