SEO Tycoon

**acidburn** · 05-19-2009, 04:19 PM

On March I uploaded one of my company's redesigned website, I did along with my IT team a new layout and changed our URL structure from TLDs to Subfolders based in languages and not countries as we used to have it.

We had I believe a minor problem which was having a javascript drop-down box for the language selection. We changed it to a CSS style combo. Still I havent figured out what exactly could have cause all our Google ranking to dissapear, in some cases even our trademarks are not showing our website and on April we did had very very good rankings for competitive keywords, this all started at the beginning of May.

Our website is http://www.andromedical.com

Please Im desperate since I believe everything I have been doing on this site is well documented and I always try to follow SEO guidelines (robots.txt, sitemap, seo-friendly urls, internal links, image alts, metatags etc...)

I would appreciate if someone can help me identify if there is something that might have messed up, I dont want to think we have been banned or something, since we are still indexed and the sites page rank hasn't changed.

**bogs** · 05-20-2009, 07:44 AM

it usually happens for a new sites.. and any changes and update can really affects your rankings...

**edgray** · 05-20-2009, 08:00 AM

have you got Google's webmaster tools installed? Check to make sure you have permanent redirects from all your old pages to their new equivalents.

If the changes were drastic, and a major restructuring sounds like it is, Google will be re-indexing your site.

Have you altered your text at all? Still using the same semantic structure? These things could affect it too.

**acidburn** · 05-21-2009, 02:31 AM

I was guessing that was going to be one of the questions asked, Im sorry I didnt mentioned it before. Yes I we did make a url rewrite we mapped all the old urls to the new content, I even checked every 404 error at webmaster tools daily and when we noticed old content from our affiliate program or so, we added a 301 to the correct route.

We did altered the text but for good, we made a big SEO effort on mostly every page of the site to target the right keywords, no more than 3 per page. We used H1, Metatags, User-friendly urls etc...

This site was made since 1998 so I it has a long time for now.....any suggestions Im really in the dark.