We transfered our site to wordpress and now all our Google results went to page 4 or 5. How can I go back to page 1? I have been doing SEO for a while and we were getting good results, but now we are not consistent on page one. The funny thing is that at my office’s computer sometimes we are page one, but at my house’s computer we are page 5, before we were page one on any computer How do search results work? Is it true that the results that I see here in Missouri will be different from the results that I will see in Massachusetts? Or even farther if I am page one for a keyword at my house’s computer, can I be page 5 at my parents house’ computer even living at the same city?
Wordpress is very powerful and Google love this platform. I have an number of top spots and my site is powered by wordpress. You could have dropped for a number of reasons. Do you have the same title/meta as before? Are the pages still named the same an located in the same place (url)? Now you Results will vary.....you have to be signed out of google and have your cookies cleared for true results. Otherwise google will show you what it thinks you want to see most. So if you are signed in and keep going to the same site or performing the same search....it will show your site much higher since you click that more often.
To get an almost true ranking of your website, you need to make sure you're logged out of any Google accounts (specifically those that have analytics/webmasters set up for your website) and restart your browser to reset your search history. From what I understand, your location only influences the local map and search ads. Different results can be caused by different data centers or the reason above (being logged in). In regards to getting your first page ranking back - did you follow all SEO guidelines for redesigning a site? 1. 301 redirect pages from your old website. You can get a list of any 404 pages in Google Webmasters 2. Update your robots and XML sitemap 3. Use similar optimization from your old homepage (meta tags, keywords in content, etc) 4. Keep in mind, your internal link structure probably changed a lot 5. There are a lot more things to look into but I'm drawing a blank at the moment If your wordpress site was launched very recently (like yesterday), give Google some time to recrawl your site and get it stable again.