Recent content by bsl64

Well I changed my description yesterday and Google reindexed my site yesterday as well because I can see the new description shown in the serps. As a result my site has dropped for every keyword I was ranking for. I mean disappeared totally from the results which tells me I was penalized! I...

Thank you sldebo. What you say makes perfect sense. So to be clear it won't cause any penalty though right? I have been on other seo forums and most say meta description has no effect on rankings but I disagree with that.

Thanks for the input. I thought that changing the meta description tag would not hurt. I guess what I should have asked is will it cause any penalty? I realize the site may fluctuate depending on the new keywords that may be targeted in the description but does it cause a penalty? Changing the...

I have a site that is about 7 months old. I want to change the meta description for the homepage but do not want to hurt my Google rankings. I know in the past on another site when I changed the meta title it hurt my site for a long time. I don't want to make the same mistake again. So...