Page Rank Drop

[laidlawseo]

Just trying to get more feedback - so we recently edited title and meta descriptions for existing website SEO and we've noticed in the past several weeks, our client's website has dropped out of the top 50 in a variety of terms we were targeting that they used to show up for (note: when updating SEO, we DID NOT remove any relevant terms we were targeting). When the website does come up in searches, it is the old meta description and title.

So far, the feedback we've gotten is that first, it takes Google a few weeks to recrawl and index - however, we are now on week 3 after the changes and still no rebound in rankings. We were also told to check with the SEO Moz page grader to be sure the keywords were being optimized correctly - got As and Bs for the test terms I tried. We also submitted an XML site map to speed up the crawl process as another user suggested. We've tested the site with various tools to make sure there are redirect errors, etc. and everything looks fine. Again, it's now been 3+ weeks and no ranking rebound. Any other suggestions on what could be happening?

[RobertFisher]

Laidlaw,

With any of the engines, when changes are made it really is difficult to know what will happen. I would think you are close to seeing them back in the rankings but it is hard to say without knowing the site. For us, when we make changes we are almost always surprised at how fast or slow they change. When they do reappear, do not be surprised to see some ranking swings for a little while. You mentioned redirects toward the end, I am assuming these are 301's, if so did you go url to url and do so in the .htaccess file? If not, this could be the culprit.

Hope this helps