Changed title tags...wooo drop in SERPS

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hamd01

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I've recently started work on a customers SEO.

He was ranking 37 for a not-very competitive niche. Easy I thought....

After looking at his site, EVERY single page (26) has the same TITLE tag set, and DESCRIPTION tag. So, I methodically went through them correctly changing them to sensible, correct length titles and descriptions, each containing the targetted keyword once, so that every page has a now has a unique title and description.

To my horror, 48 hours later the site has gone from 37 to 460!!!

Do you think this could be just a Google Dance, or is it cause for major alarm?

 

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hernanl

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• Dec 14, 2010

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I wouldn't know. But recently I changed title tags of a site of mine, for the content on each page (instead of name of the site - slogan - content) and climbed up a couple of pages in google (not no. 1 yet, though).

 

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hamd01

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Thanks....that makes me feel....erm worse.

 

ticbra

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Just wait a couple of days...

 

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hamd01

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I hope so. I cant believe Ive changed a site from having terrible duplicate title tags on EVER page, to having correctly formatted unique title tags....and Google has hammered the site 400 places!!! grrrr

 

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hamd01

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Just moved up to 129.....looks like it may be a Google Dance.

 

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ronmojohny

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You did the right thing, it will pay off a few weeks from now

 

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apeek22

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• Dec 15, 2010

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Yeah I would wait a couple days.

Site I am working on, one product page ranked spot 5 for "phrase" I changed the title tag to have "phrase" as the start of the title. Below are the results..

Day 0: 5
Day 1: 12
Day 2: 8
Day 3: 4

Nice, only change to page!

 

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Ultraburner

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• Dec 15, 2010

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Thats really funny that I came across this post because exactly the same thing happened to me.

I changed my title tag (basically cos it was too long) and bang site dropped.

I'll be interested to see if mine climbs as well.

Note to self - get tag right the first time.

 

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hernanl

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Ultraburner said:

Note to self - get tag right the first time.

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indeed!

 

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Muhammad Mustafa

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don't worry, it'll get up and up again in days, its NOT a temp move, I believe that most of us have experienced such a thing at least once, take it easy

 

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hamd01

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The iritating thing is that my customer has been employing a crap SEO company, and I've been telling how "they havent set title tags per page" "the descriptions are too long" etc etc. I tell him how great I am and fix it all, then it drops like a bloody brick. I've had to try and explain to the customer about the Google Dance which he is no doubt now Googling!!

 

M1ndfluX

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• Dec 16, 2010

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I had it once with a $600 a month affiliate site. Changed to title to a two word KW and some minor changes in only the descriptions.

After a day or two, bang. Gone. Place # who gives a f...

Took maybe a month or so to come back, stronger, after also building some targeted backlinks etc. etc...

These days i recheck 10 times my meta's before my site goes 'live'...

 

angelas111

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• Dec 16, 2010

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i just changed some title tags yesterday. we'll see what happens.

 

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backlinkcrazy

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same happen to me it took google over 3 weeks then it came back even higher then where i was so just give it some time

 

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deancow

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• Dec 16, 2010

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I've done the same for local companies, the site completely dropped but came back about 2 weeks later.
Also you can never be 100% sure it was changing the titles that was the cause, just try and be patient

 

yuyo

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• Dec 16, 2010

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sorry for ask, how can i check my site i recently changed the title.

 

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Roundhouse

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yuyo said:

sorry for ask, how can i check my site i recently changed the title.

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what do you mean?

 

yuyo

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i wan to see where my site stands on google or to see in what position.

 

crosscheck

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I happen to do the same thing....I dropped...no improvement for 3 days then I looked at crawls they had not been back so I requested a crawl in webmaster tools and BAM 4 positions better! Oh and also I read some where I can't remember to reference too but sometimes takes up to 3 crawls for G to re evaluate the change. Don't know how true that is but hope maybe it helps.

 

Last edited: Dec 16, 2010