article edit> dropped from #5 to #75 and not came back months later

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a stupid thng i did, i thought if i write longer articles then ill target more kws and ill rank higher.

LESS IS MORE

that was so stupid of me. i remade the article and indeed its very good but it seems google prefers less detailed articles. last article was much more lame but it was on page one between #3 and #8 but i edited it, added images, links, 1-2k words and now its at #70 jfl and didnt go back for months
(in other words, better less images, links, and words: e.g. better 1k words just about your kw than 3k words about your kw but also explaining other details related to that kw - probably because google doesnt pick up well what these small details are and it thinks these are different subjects)

MORE KWS == BAD
also, i have a feeling that if you mix two huge kws that are related but google thinks they mean different thing, and you put them in most important places on your site (e.g title, kw, slug), then google will rank you far away for both kws because it thinks they are not close enough.

for example, if your title is: (BAD)
"is honda better than porshee: comparison of best cars"

then it will rank for kws "honda" "porshee" and "best cars" much worse than if you made 3 posts instead that are: (GOOD)
"Everything about Honda - is Honda good choice?"
"Your center of knowledge about porshee car. Is porshe worth it?"
"List of best cars: 2019 ranking of best cars available"

(if you didnt realize, the first title covers 3 huge kws that may be counted as different topics by google, while latter 3 titles cover just one kw each and surround it with stop-words)

What are your experiences? I did read so much bs about making huge thourugh articles that cover every detail but after my recent experiences i think thats BS. maybe it was indeed the aim of Google but seems their text processing doesnt understand that things we write about in our long azz articles are indeed very closely related to the phrase - google either thinks related kws are not related, or it intentionally was made to not pay huge attention to LSI and related kws
 
"porshee" ???? maybe just make sure you spell your KW right.
 
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Long but relevant articles makes sense too many factors involved in your rank drop, and if it’s a recent rank drop then don’t worry many have lost their rank it’ll come back
 
It all depends from your domain authority. In Italy there is one tech site (aranzulla.it) that publish even 20 similar articles (all long.. 2-8000 words) for cover 20 different long-tails with same main keyword. You will find article on how to download music from youtube, how to download video from youtube, how to extract audio from youtube videos, you to cut youtube videos, you to cut only a part of youtube video etc with a lot of other edits.. and he is one of most visited sites in Italy (i've read he making 3 milions EUR yearly..)

But if we made the same with website without many authority backlinks, google will flag for sure our site like spam one...
 
"porshee" ???? maybe just make sure you spell your KW right.
yep. i was confident that i wrote it wrong, but couldnt be bothered tbh. it is their fault for making unusual name for their product. also it was just example and how to spell porschee is irrelevant

Long but relevant articles makes sense too many factors involved in your rank drop, and if it’s a recent rank drop then don’t worry many have lost their rank it’ll come back
not really "too many factors". article is the only thing i changed. i dont have a backup of old article though

It all depends from your domain authority. In Italy there is one tech site (aranzulla.it) that publish even 20 similar articles (all long.. 2-8000 words) for cover 20 different long-tails with same main keyword. You will find article on how to download music from youtube, how to download video from youtube, how to extract audio from youtube videos, you to cut youtube videos, you to cut only a part of youtube video etc with a lot of other edits.. and he is one of most visited sites in Italy (i've read he making 3 milions EUR yearly..)

But if we made the same with website without many authority backlinks, google will flag for sure our site like spam one...

if his backlink profile is good then many of other mistakes will be ignored by google. what you wrote doesnt prove that long detailed articles rank better than 1k word articles that target just one kw

Change it back again ?

dont have backup
 
I believe you shouldnt update unnecessary articles. google take cares of article editing if your article is related to something that is happening at that period. For example your article related to barcelona games and yesterday there was a game between barcelona and madrid so you updated your article. Google will like this but if your article is not something changing ı mean general information it doesnt like too much updates on that page.
 
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