I love this theme! That said, ever since I've installed it my readership has dropped. I have the SEO option set to not use Atahualpa's SEO functions. I use All-in-one-SEO, supported by Atahualpa, but I'm getting no search engine hits like I used to.

Have any of you had this problem?

Thanks,

John

Post a URL so I can see if something is wrong with your site. All in one SEO should work fine with Atahualpa.

Flynn,

www.relaxandhavefun.com This is SFW, it's just book reviews.

-Crippen

I see no problems in the source code, such as HTML tags inside the head section. All in one SEO seems to be working. W3C throws out a few errors but nothing too serious as far as I can see, most of them caused by a "link enhancer" http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

This should not affect search engine rankings. I did however notice that some of your pages are listed in Google in an odd way:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...n.com&start=10

The single post page "Descent into Chaos", 5th result from the top, is listed with the URL
relaxandhavefun.com/?p=43=1

although it should be
relaxandhavefun.com/?p=43

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...un.com&start=0

The single post page "Orientalism|Book Reviews", 2nd result from the top, is listed with the URL
relaxandhavefun.com/?p=27%22

although it should be
berelaxandhavefun.com/?p=27

%22 is the Hex code for a double quote. Looks like that specific post once was linked as href="link"" (with 2 double quotes at the end)

There may be more like this. I have not looked further than page 5 in Google.

Atahualpa does not seem to generate those =1 and %22 appendices. I could not see those pages linked from your site that way.

While these URL issues indicate that something is wrong (or rather: was wrong) it may not be the (sole) reason for the traffic drop you're seeing, this can have 100 other reasons.

Flynn,

Thank you for looking at this. For a test, I re-saved the Orientalism post, with no changes. Can you look at it and see if it still has the same info? That post used to have a link to a photo. The link is dead. I will fix it later tonight. Just curious if merely re-posting made any change.

Thanks,

Crippen

No real luck with this. I tried disabling all-in-one-SEO and using the Atahualpa SEO functions for a while. That made no difference. So I reactivated all-in-one-SEO. Site traffic is still terrible compared to pre-Atahualpa. This is not a commercial site, so it's no big deal. It's just bothersome that something's changed and my page are possibly less-found than before. -Crippen