hi all, i had an increase in visitors over the past 5 days on yahoo, but for one particular keyword i was ranked number 14 and slowly moved up to 9 over the past 5 days, i checked my ranking for that keyword last night and it has dropped off the face of the earth, now i am ranked number 61, does anyone know why? The only thing I can think of that i did was update the meta description for that page, but I thought I changed it for the better, putting more words relating to the keyword in the meta description. any help is most appreciated or anyone who experienced this before if you can share your thoughts. thanks!
I am having similar problems with yahoo... I am working on it. If I come up with something I will come back here and post.
did you make any changes? i made minor changes on my content but i expected it to make my serps better...now i am thinking what i did does not have anything to do with the serp being down on that one keyword
It could have saw it as spamming, giving it a penalty. Or it was at a perfect % for the keyword, then you adjusted and made it worse. Of course, this is Yahoo we are speaking of. They probably just tweaked something in their index and made everything crazy.
fyi guys....i had added my keyword more times (about 3) in the meta description then i saw my serp go down, when i saw that happen i removed those keywords and now i am back in the top 10; but like poemofquotes said it could be that they changed something as well....however i must say that my site came back in the top 10 as soon as it get crawled again by yahoo, is it that sensitive?