I'm glad that doesn't happen often.

[mapsedge]

Royally fucked up and put noindex/nofollow directives on a client's website. Over the course of just a couple of weeks their sales leads dropped from avg.10/day to less than 1.

I've corrected that, updated their sitemap, and put some activity into Google's Webmaster Tools to let them know the site is still alive, so things should improve in a week or so.

The 3rd party SEO company that works with the client tried to throw us under the bus for it - and rightly so - but the client was more concerned that SEO company didn't spot the problem earlier. My screw-up never came up: in the conference call, the fact that I'd already addressed every issue raised mitigated the bloodshed, at least on our side.

I know how it happened. I know basically when it happened. I know how to prevent it from happening in the future - actually, it's unlikely to in any case. The circumstance in which it happened was an exception. Still, it was a stupid, brainless thing to let happen.

I'd be okay with it if I didn't have very many more mornings like this one.

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[nottygypsy.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that sucks! Good save though!
Have some roses!