Does too much editing kill your SEO rank?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by celtswinthetitle, Jul 2, 2008.

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    I just went live with my website about 2 weeks ago, and have been making minor adjustments almost every day. Instead of editing locally and then uploading, I have been editing, saving, refreshing, editing, saving etc. etc.

    I have probably made 30-50 changes a day. Not entire content changes, but a line break here, or a word change there. I just read that too many edits can hurt your SEO rank.

    Is this true? Is there a way I can undo the damage? Has this happened to you?
     
    celtswinthetitle, Jul 2, 2008 IP
  2. mdvaldosta

    mdvaldosta Peon

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    Changing the page titles often may hurt in the short term, but your website is much too new to worry about search rankings. Make your website as best you can and add new content often, and don't worry so much about little details that may make no difference at all.
     
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  3. Regine

    Regine Member

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    #3
    it doesnt hurt a 2-week site
    as long as the tags,H1 and title are intact, it wont hurt any of your SEO
    changing/updating content is actually good
     
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  4. celtswinthetitle

    celtswinthetitle Peon

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    There are no edits left to do. It's for an ebook, in a market with no competition. I recently had first page rankings, but now its gone, and more irrelevant content is there. How do I get back to my former glory of getting on the first page?
     
    celtswinthetitle, Jul 2, 2008 IP
  5. mdvaldosta

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    Happens alot to new sites, don't worry about it. Focus on content and getting valuable related websites linking to you.
     
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  6. celtswinthetitle

    celtswinthetitle Peon

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    But... why did it drop me from the front page? Is there a solution to get back up in ranking?
     
    celtswinthetitle, Jul 2, 2008 IP
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    Maybe the sandbox effect?
     
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    It doest hurt it, since your site is also kind of new, they’ll consider it development.
     
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  9. jvfconsulting

    jvfconsulting Active Member

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  10. kentuckyslone

    kentuckyslone Notable Member

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    Editing your site in itself does not hurt or help SEO, it is the quality of the editing that can do that. As long as you are editing it to improve it then you have nothing to worry about.
     
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    thecatalyst Active Member

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    If you change your sites links that are indexed it will hurt your seo but making little changes wont do any.
     
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    I dont think it will - as long as you don't mess with the h1 tags too much and obviously the overall content of the site.
     
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  13. celtswinthetitle

    celtswinthetitle Peon

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    Okay, that's good to know. Thanks everyone...

    However, it still doesn't answer my question... I was ranked on the first page prior to doing the intense editing. The content wasn't dramatically changed, just lots of minor edits.

    Why did I lose rank?

    And it's all HTML, no flash.
     
    celtswinthetitle, Jul 2, 2008 IP
  14. celtswinthetitle

    celtswinthetitle Peon

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    bump - anyone have any insight into why google would drop me so quickly from the first page?
     
    celtswinthetitle, Jul 4, 2008 IP