A Drop Rather than Increase - What did I do wrong?

This is confusing me

VBSEO was installed on Oct 3 and while the number of spiders has increased greatly there has been a decrease in the position on the google search engine (using Tablet PC). In turn, organic traffic is decreasing steadily. For almost a year, the site was between 12-15 and now the site moves between 18-24. A report shows registration is down from last year, too.

I have checked validity of xhtml, keyword density, links, etc. A new server was provisioned. I bought more Google adwords, too. What did I do wrong to cause this drop in keyword position, traffic and registration?

What would you do to fix this site so that the investment in vbseo was/is worthwhile? Things seemed to have been better off without the software so I need to justify the expense. I must not be using the software settings correctly. They are mainly at the default. :(

It's common for an initial drop. Stay the course. We have seen people get into a panic and start changing settings, which only makes things worse.

Originally Posted by Keith Cohen

It's common for an initial drop. Stay the course. We have seen people get into a panic and start changing settings, which only makes things worse.

Thank you for the reply. I just hope that I did not install something wrong.

If your forum is working, you didn't install anything wrong.

it's only been a month.

stay the course.

SEO is not an over-night process.

I'm going on 6-months waiting on yahoo... they still have my old URL's.
thankfully, google picked me up very soon

Originally Posted by briansol

If your forum is working, you didn't install anything wrong.

it's only been a month.

Only a month since installing the vbseo but the site has been around for a long time.

stay the course.

I am getting very nervous. The site continues to drop.

I'm going on 6-months waiting on yahoo... they still have my old URL's. thankfully, google picked me up very soon

About three years ago, I paid the 300 plus dollars for Yahoo to look at Tablet PC Questions and they rejected listing the site. This is when I discovered that there services were pretty much useless.