Creating a website, putting content on it, and maintaining it is just a beginning of a laborious task ahead.
One may have the most beautiful website in the world but if it is not optimized for Google, who garners 65 % of world's search shares, then the website may fail to draw visitors.
I don't have funds to advertise Tubag Bohol and the only thing I can do is to optimize our website so that Google would love to crawl and index our pages everyday.
Myself a search engine optimizer, I have spent hundreds of hours to make Tubag Bohol highly favored by Google, employing manual techniques (better than automated) to make our website highly ranked.
Our efforts have paid off. Three days ago, Tubag Bohol became the most indexed website among all Bohol-related websites with nearly 11,000 pages available in Google search results. And to think our site is still a baby - 5 months old, naa pay gatas ang baba.
But this morning, Google removed more than a thousand pages of Tubag Bohol in its search index. I thought all those periods were sort of fun and style. I failed to monitor that one of us was deleting threads and comments replacing them with a single period. I should drink more coffee so I could keep a constant eye on our Tubag Bohol.
Google was penalizing Tubag Bohol. Why would Google keep a page of a website with a singe period on it? Simple logic. So Google was also deleting pages of Tubag Bohol. And we cannot afford this to go on. We need high volume of pages being indexed by Google. We want Boholanos to find us among millions of websites and meet us here and join us in sharing thoughts and feelings as we retrace our roots and heritage.
It was a painful decision, but it was the only option we have. I had to delete the account of a member and removed all the posts with a single period.
More than 1,200 posts were deleted, 300 of which came from the question: "Are All Politicians Prostitutes?"
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