quick question: Below is an example of my prior title tage: Always Running / shoes / cothing I added one word to my title tag : Always Running LLC / shoes / cothing. My ranking had dropped significantly. I understand google does not like changes but I was renaked on the first page and now I can not find my page. Help / suggestions?
What keywords did you search? If it's for the word "shoes", I believe, although I'm not sure, that while Google gives high priority to words in the title tag, it also consider the first word in the title tag to be the most important, the second word to be the second most important, and so on. In your previous title tag, the word "shoes" and "clothing" are the third and fourth words respectively. By putting the word LLC, they now become the fourth and fifth words. In the eyes of Google, the importance of this words with respect to your website drops.
i once made this type of simple change that changed all title tags on my site.. within 10 days or so i took a huge drop in rankings (and traffic).. after about 3 weeks it came back to normal..