Impact of recent On Page Optimisation changes had negative impact !

[AshShep1]

Hi I recently updated some page titles, H1 tags & on page content which overall has seen search results slip down following the first site crawl by google I assume.

My question is, should I try to get back  the rankings and test and change one thing at a time to see the impact right now or should i wait for a period of time for it to settle down once goggle has crawled the site a few times or will the subsequent crawls have no impact?

Thanks

Ash

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi Ash

Personally i would wait and see since G has been known to drop rankings for recently 'improved' pages just to stop people being able to correlate changes with ranking improvements.

I would give it a couple of weeks and see where you are then, if no improvement then change one thing at a time to undo possible over-optimisation.

Also keep an eye on a couple of competitors (who have similar domain authority to you) rankings too since if they are volatile over same time period then could just be general volatility

Having said that I have noted some of my clients/projects pages achieving an A grade with previous good rankings have recently dropped quite significantly and hence im testing reducing the numbers of keywords on page and using synonyms and plurals/singulars as well as the broadest of broad match combinations.

All Best

Dan

[artdivision]

There might be other reasons than your on page optimisation that led to your rankings.

Firstly I agree, leave a bit more time to pass by before jumping to conclusions. Some of my clients' keywords dance up and down in serp for few days without any particular reason so give it a week or two until Google decided your page's rank.

BTW from onpage optimisation you mean META (at least that is my understanding) changes. Did you also change url structure? How about your internal anchor link text? Did you change that too or left it with the old keywords? On page is much more than just MoZs report

[nurzhyk]

It is hard to say without the exact site. Those can be short jumps or you just got overoptimization filter from Google. In addition to the questions from other users tell me please current percentage of keyword density for your targeted keywords. You can check this easily with SEO Quake Toolbar.

[AshShep1]

Hi Dan thanks for your advice.

Yes they all have A Grades although one or two of the pages could have too many KWs in the "key" places, which as you say used to work!

I will track and play with over the next few weeks.

Thanks

Ash

[AshShep1]

Hi yes, I did change one or two internal anchor texts, so that could be another factor.

I guess i should have changed one thing at a time to test the impact - once it has settled down i will remove one thing at a time to test.

Thanks

Ash

[AshShep1]

HI Andriy the site is www.over50choices.co.uk the specific page is http://www.over50choices.co.uk/Health/Compare-Health-Insurance.aspx

I have just plugged in the Quake Toolbar and see the KW density remains the same for all pages!

Is this because the site is DNN CMS templated site - is there anything i can do to get the pages analysed as separate pages?

Thanks

Ash