I dont understand - Keywork Ranking Question

Discussion in 'Keywords' started by THT, Aug 11, 2007.

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  1. #1
    For my recipe site, I had 2 example pages listed in google.

    The titles were the only piece of information I changed, and in both cases, the page ranking dropped 1 position.

    For example,
    Title was : Thai Recipes - Yellow Curry Chicken

    I changed it to Yellow Curry Chicken - Thai Recipes

    Now, for the term Yellow Curry Chicken, ive dropped a place?

    Why should I drop a place when the page seems more appropriate?
     
    THT, Aug 11, 2007 IP
  2. WPOSolutions

    WPOSolutions Active Member

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    #2
    Positioning seems to be changing on a regular basis, need only worry if you disappear all together ;-)
     
    WPOSolutions, Aug 12, 2007 IP
  3. KNEB

    KNEB Peon

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    #3
    Could you explain a bit more? Your Q seems to be out of .....
    Cheers and hope to hear soon
     
    KNEB, Sep 5, 2007 IP
  4. THT

    THT Peon

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    I just thought that if i was ranking for Yellow Curry Chicken

    Then "Yellow Curry Chicken - Thai Recipes" would give better results than "Thai Recipes - Yellow Curry Chicken"

    But it actually showed worse results...
     
    THT, Sep 6, 2007 IP
  5. Trapped

    Trapped Well-Known Member

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    #5
    Indeed it should perform better changing the title in that way if you are targeting Yello Curry Chicken since the keywords are at the beginning of the title and the weight grows.

    How much time has passed since you have made this change? You might be possibly experiencing the Google dance, give it some time. I remembe once before that i was on 4th page for a high competitive keyword and I did not had even the keywords in the title, once moved the keywords in the title i went on the 30+ page of the serps for couple of days and than came back on 2nd page.

    Just give it some time, if it persist build 1-2 more links with your keyword as anchor text and see what the results will be after 2-3 or even 7 days.

    Kind regards.
     
    Trapped, Sep 6, 2007 IP
  6. karamkshetra

    karamkshetra Peon

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    Well I too feel giving sometime for this will be better.
    As I also got scared... I have just changed the Title in the same way...

    Hope for the best!
     
    karamkshetra, Sep 7, 2007 IP
  7. ron21

    ron21 Banned

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    #7
    Check the density and prominence of both keywords!if they change there is certainly change in the SERP position or maybe you need to gain more BL to for that! Based on my experience some of my keywords dropped from from first page up to 3rd page! wow! that really hurt!
    and it didn't return up to now!
     
    ron21, Sep 7, 2007 IP
  8. rosiee007

    rosiee007 Notable Member

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    The same happened with one of the client sites I work on. I changed the URL to something more specific and the rankings actually dropped rather then improving. But they were back on Page 1 on Google in a week :)
     
    rosiee007, Sep 13, 2007 IP