Life of an Online Business – My Pillow place

Something happened the other day that really irritated me.  One of my link partners emailed me to ask me to remove their link from my site.  People usually don’t mind having links.  A link to your site can’t hurt you.  It the sites you link to that can penalize you with the search engines.  I’m not sure why someone would make this request.  Maybe he figured my site was banned or something because of my recent pagerank loss…I removed the link but didn’t email the idiot back to let him know that I took it down…he’s emailed me again asking to have it taken down, but I just deleted the email.  Its already down, if you checked it yourself you would see that, dumbass!  On top of that, if it is my pagerank decline that caused this issue, it is ridiculous.  I am sure that this is a temporary glitch and once Google updates its index again, I’ll get me rank back…again, all my keyword positions have not only remained, but some have gotten better since the PR of 0…

Anyway, I digress…I’ve watched, in Yahoo, my floor pillow page float between the 1st and 4th position on the page.  We’re still getting a good amount of traffic.  Our sales have trailed off a bit, but we’re still getting more than I expected based on the fact that our shipping deadlines are well past.  I will be spending some time next week working on the website and improving things.  Optimizing for the engines, maybe writing some articles and other things like that.  I also might consider redesigning our homepage for 2008…That would be fun. On a final note on my keywords.  In Yahoo, my bean bags page has almost fallen off the map….at one point, My Pillow Place was the 13th listings…now we’re several pages back…what’s up with that?