I have been link building for several keywords and one site was no1 on Google, then last week noticed lots of changes in Google and site is now on second page OMG! Started link building for search term, it seems that google is now taking importance from webpage description, title more than links? Are you seeing the same?
I haven't noticed any major changes. Maybe its just a temporary thing (the Google dance) and you will soon go back up! Don't let it get to you - keep building those links!
Try to focus on the quality of those backlinks, also on the quality of your page. We have not seen any change recently, but before we have seen each month, with some low-quality pages so I thought this can be a reason.
Use Keywords in title, description and first paragraph of your content, that is the standard procedure followed. If you follow it, it does not matter if Google is giving importance to description or title or both.
Their search algorithm keeps changing from time to time or maybe it could be the google dance , wait few days before and see if your site is on page 1 again.
I would agree that this change places less emphasis on anchor text and more on the page title, url and text within the page body.
Nothing major on my end. Looks like you may be going through the Google dance. Just keep building solid backlinks and make sure you've got a properly optimized site. You'll be fine.
The site IS optimised as it should be...this is why for the past 6 months before this hickup occured I was #1.
everytime G change something in the Algo expect some rank bouncing back and forth for some couple of days
I haven't seen any big changes on the first two pages. But in the top 100 I have seen quite a few big changes.
I noticed that my ranking moved 3-4 slots but it has something to do with the way my competitor's build links. What I noticed is that they have updated the PR.