Hi, me again with more dumb questions...Sorry, "it's what I do". - I've been asking lots of dumb questions all my life and I've done OK with that strategy so far I have just spent a bit of time increasing the relevancy of my titles, descriptions, words etc. I resubmitted my site to google about 4 days ago...Here's the thing that bothers me. My rankings have improved...GREAT ! However, the reuslts pages are only showing my new descriptions, titels etc on my 'subpages', with my index page positioned above them with the old meta data. Does this mean I've done something wrong with my homepage, or does Google not always go for the default page first??? ...One more dumb question...Honest I've been testing my keywords from an international standpoint aswell as a national one...ie: One from the google com website and one from the country in question....Now, when you're on a national-specific incarnation of google you have the option to: 'Search pages from "that country", or "search the web"...Thing is when I 'search the web', my rankings are different from when I search from the dot com site...Surley they are one and the same?...Obviously not. Can anyone shed any light on this. Thanks Mark
First one, it may be that your subpages were due for a new cache so Google picked up on the changes there first. Check your homepage cache date, if it's fairly recent you have nothing to worry about Google will do it soon. When searching "Pages from the web" on a country Google TLD such as Google.com.au it gives more preference to pages from Australia than the same search on regular Google.com
Hi. Thanks...Would that suggest that the best way to empathise/test your search from an international point of view, is to use google dot com?
It depends on where your site targets, if it's international then yes Google.com but if your site targets say UK then it's the Google.co.uk rankings you should be monitoring.