Can I just replay a backup within wordpress to regain my google ranking from yesterday?

[RWW]

Hi,

yesterday I had a wonderful ranking for the website I do SEO for.

The site is pretty still new (online since about one week). Around 11 am yesterday we ranked pretty good and challenged some local sites within the insurance business. Then I made a mistake and stuffed a part of a mail (full of keywords and comments) that was sent to me into an alt-tag of an image. Unfortunatelly it took me around 2 or 3 hours to notice.

Before fixing the issue I made some other SEO changes and the site dropped on different keywords on google. Now it practically disappeared from the results…

Does it make sense to just play back a backup from around 11 am yesterday or will google penalize so much going back and forth… (Meanwhile title-tag has been changed, an some alt-attributes, one of three H1s on the page to make it fit more to the title)

Best regards

Marc

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Marc,

If the site has only been live for about a week, I doubt very much anything you have done to the site has caused this. It is not uncommon for Google to rank a new site highly for a few days, then you drop into a bottomless pit again. This is only while Google is assessing the site. I would doubt that you could do anything to fix that in such a short space of time.

-Andy

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Marc,

I can only agree with Andy that it's highly unlikely that Google picked up your new content so fast, did you check if the cached time of the content that you have changed, has changed as well so that you know for sure it's based on on-site stuff that caused this?

M

[RWW]

Hi Andy,

well - in fact it is a relaunch of a site that was already online for about a year.
 In the Crawling Statistics in Google Webmastertools I can see that the site was crawled on a daily basis since one week.

Cheers Marc

[RWW]

Hi Martijn,

sorry I did not get exactly what you mean by

"did you check if the cached time of the content that you have changed, " - can you please express it differently and tell me where I can check that?

Thanks,

Marc

[RWW]

Ok - I was courageous and undid the changes from the last two days to a version where the ranking was pretty good.Within 1,5 hours the site ranked as good as before Thanks for your help guys.

Cannot say exactly what it was. Sandbox-effect?

Cheers Marc