My site is indexed but keywords come back as "not found"

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Corinna, Feb 20, 2013.

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    I recently translated my website and all my translated pages have been indexed (I did a site:search) but when ever I put any of my keywords into google it comes back as "not found".
    (I switched to the right language and put territory as 'unlisted' in webmaster tools)

    Does anybody know what to do about this?
     
    Corinna, Feb 20, 2013 IP
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    coloma21 Active Member

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    Hi Corrina,

    The moment you make changes to any of your web pages, you then change your rankings as well.

    For example, if your page was in spanish, and you re-translated it into english, then that will affect your rankings greatly.

    Keep in mind, english words are much more competitive in google than any other international language.

    So if you were initially ranking for the spanish keywords "sapatos" (which means shoes), and translated everything into english... you will lose your "sapatos" rankings, and instead your site will try to compete for the keyword "shoes".

    Then all that's left is for you is to do proper seo in order to compete with the english words.

    Make sense? hopefully i did lol.
     
    coloma21, Feb 20, 2013 IP