After months being top of page two for keyword "Britney Spears" with my Britney Spears fansite i decided to change my theme. I personally coded my new theme so i could get better results. And guess what happened? I get Page 1 position 4 at Google.co.uk for entire web searches, but dropped more than 1 page in google.com where i used to rank "not so bad". Also for Britney Spears News my serps have droped 9 positions. I mean, My site is hosted in the USA, ive always ranked top of page 2 in Usa for that keyword and after the changed i get after the official sites but solo in google.co.uk (even for entire web searches)? Should i keep this "theme" for a few more days and wait to see if it gets "serp update" at .com also? Is it a good "sign" that i rank top in .co.uk for entire web? Please share your thoughts. Im desperate =P
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Did you even read it, in short terms "Page layouts affects seo", "Content position in the code matters", "links structure of your new layout links matters". Revert back, wait, or make a new one.
I wouldn't go changing it again, Google is in a very up & down state as it is and when you make changes to your site it can take a while for things to settle. Keep adding content, build some more links and monitor the site for another week or so before deciding if things have gone pear shaped.
sorry wissam. As it was so fast i thought it was some kind of "spammy message". Thanks a lot for your text. and once again. im sorry
sorry wissam. As it was so fast i thought it was some kind of "spammy message". Thanks a lot for your text. and once again. im sorry
Update- Same position in Google.co.za. Top 5 for that keyword. Maybe i should give google.com a few more days 2 update? what would you guys do?
Rankings keep improving in .co.uk . Im currently 3rd position. And keep dropping on google.com The changes were already made 4 days before. Should i keep waiting for .com to update?
I'd wait, also i take it your in the UK? Even searching from the UK on Google.com it will give you different results then what others in the US see. Go to the proxy Hidemyass.com and punch in Google.com and query your term through that, do you rank better?
I am not in The UK, nor in USa. I checked all results via proxys and i think i found my problem. When i was page 2 in .com i was showing 20 news in landing page around (72kb). I was now showing just 12 which made my side jump to 52kb. Maybe was the page size making me jump in .com to third page? I changed back to 20 news. Lets see if it stays page 1 in UK and NEw Zealand and gets back page 2 in .com
try validating your site on the w3c site, this may be the problem. also 4th in uk is good, have you seen a change in traffic etc?
the site is fully validated. (just the adverts wont validate). 4th in UK is good. But i get about the same traffic with 4th of UK and Second page on USA. Like 1300 uniques daily. What i wanted was a mix of both (4th in UK and at least page 2 in USA). I tried showing back 20 news so page gets 70kb. Maybe it will be there tomorrow
Yes this is likely effecting things, only 12 news items means a different amount of keywords and page size. So did you rank higher when searching from the proxy IP?
yes. i did check. In co.uk im still position 4 and same in .co.nz. Seems like "google.co's" like my new SEO. But .com hates it. I changed back to the previous page size (showing 20news) to see if it goes better on .com and if its stays nice in .co.uk and .co.nz