Nothing Surprises Me Any More
A customer of ours canceled this week and launched a site from another company. Not a big deal really–it happens in both directions now and then. In fact, this photographer had one of our earliest designs; I can see the desire to upgrade.
But here's what strikes me as odd. I had personally done some optimization to this photographer's site. The site lands on page 1 of more than a couple Google searches, one of which is pretty darn coveted if you ask me (popular destination locale in the California). I even helped with some link-building , one of which I control. Can you guess how long that link is going to last?
Now everything is gone. And, as Google re-crawls the web, so too will the rankings. Don't get me wrong, I'm not upset that my hard work is gone (I got paid). It's not that I was never warned or asked about an upgrade (I would have given one for free). I just feel bad for the photographer. I wonder if this person even watched their stats or know where they ranked.
At least the new site is pretty.
Photographers are so strange.