2 Replies Latest reply: Jun 30, 2013 2:53 PM by sebrame RSS

    Muse and SEO experience

    sebrame Community Member

      Well, it's been a few months since I replaced the Wordpress version of our site with an Adobe Muse version. Same structure, same copy text, same headings, same photos, same ALT tags, etc. Now, when the Wordpress version was live, we enjoyed a position in the top 10 organic results for our target keywords search on Google, Bing and Yahoo. Now, we're still in the top 10 on Google(yay!), but we've totally disappeared from both Bing and Yahoo. Granted, Bing's webmaster tools finds no problem at all with our site, so I have no idea why we don't show up AT ALL in a search now.

       

      Hopefully this isn't simply a factor of Google lagging behind the others, and will drop our site from search results soon along with the others. At that point I'll have to go back to Wordpress.

       

      Steve Brame

      creativeillusions.biz

        • 1. Re: Muse and SEO experience
          MBC10519 Community Member

          We had the same issue and thought that something was seriously wrong. It was .. We then properly updated the metatags in the Page Properties for each page. Then step 2, we went and highlighted all the Headers as H1 and Body text, H2, etc. This fixed everything in a few days. We also went into google webmaster tools and submitted "fetch as url" and sitemap submissions etc.  Its a painful process but what I realized was that while we easily create headers, text frames etc, with Muse, its quite possible to ignore the structured layout that the Search Engines are looking for in a site. Once you fix these attributes of your text, you will be good.

          • 2. Re: Muse and SEO experience
            sebrame Community Member

            Seems strange that such things might affect the visibility to one or two engines, but not to another.