Hey Google! Here I Am!

Update: Wow! This post has already been indexed by Google. Check it out. Less than an hour in the rain!

This post will be important to anyone who has owned a domain name for a very long time; it will also be very important to anyone who cares for a little more insight into Google.

If, at some point, you have changed websites, or changed the software on your site... It could damage your index position in Google.

So check this out: For years and years, I've been number one in Google for the term "Arizona Jumbo Loan" or "Arizona Jumbo Mortgage" or almost anything to do with jumbos. Same thing with FHA, VA...you name it. I had a good grip on Google.

Recently, I decided to update the website-- best thing I ever did by the way-- but, oh no! I was dropped out of Google! My VA loan page? The best in AZ? I can't even find it on the first five pages.

All of my content remains the same-- I even made it better. But now I was out of the index. All of my competition was above me.

How could this happen?!?

If you search for AZ Jumbo Mortgage right now, you will find that I am right back in number one position. I was gone for a few weeks-- and now I am back.

So...no big deal. I was out, but now I am suddenly back on top. I fixed it. Aren't you just thrilled?

Here is what I did:

I used the Wayback machine right here: http://web.archive.org/

They index your domain and you can see what your site looked like a long time ago.

So I wrote down all of the old links as I took my trip down memory lane.

Oh! How cute! My first Arizona Wholesale Mortgage design!

Then I opened up my website and changed every single URL back to what it was a few years ago. Google really liked me before and I want Google to like me again.

"Look Google! I've changed! I'm back to the way I was when we first met..."

It worked. Today, I am back on top for Jumbo Loans in Arizona.

But Google hasn't indexed everything yet. I was number one for years for the term Arizona VA Loan or AZ VA loans, or anything that you can think of to do with VA loans and VA mortgages.

Since our favorite search engine crawls ActiveRain so regularly, please let me take a moment to let Google know that all of my old pages are back.

You can click on my links if you want to, but they WILL NOT open in a new window...so you will leave ActiveRain. This is purely for The Google. So...check it out Google:

Arizona VA Loan

Arizona Jumbo Mortgage --- nah. What's the point? Already there. My competition does not realize this, but there is such a thing as overkill... So I won't link to that one. This time.

Right now, if you Google AZ VA Loan, I am nowhere to be found. Try it.

I bet, within the next week, I will be back on top for AZ VA Loans. Yep. I am just that bold. I'm pulling the old Babe Ruth and pointing to left field before I swing. (Actually, I am so confident that I would say "2 days", but I figured I would give myself a whole week, just to be cushy.)

Finally, it should be said, that this post is public...for now. I just need Google to find this page and once this page is indexed and my new / old VA link is found, this post will go to "Associates Only." So feel free to re-blog...

Now to get back to my work. I still have more links to change.