Content change and variations in ranking

[seoanalytics]

Hello,

I have create a new webpage and asked google in the webmaster tool to crawl it. Within minutes it is ranked at a certain spot. I did make changes to it to increase the ranking and right away I could see variations in ranking either up or down ?

I have done the same same thing for a page that has been existing on my website for many years. I changed the content, asked the webmaster tool to re-crawl it. It got the new content within minutes but the ranking doesn't seem to change. Maybe my content isn't good enough but I doubt.

Could it be that on old pages it takes a couple weeks to see ranking changes whereas on new page it is instantaneous.

Has anyone experienced something similar ?

Thank you,

[Nozzle]

Well is there way more competition for the keyword or keywords you are optimizing this old page for than for the keyword(s) the new page is optimized for?

We would say it's common to not necessarily see changes when making changes to content. For every query, Google has several hundred thousand pages (at least) it could return in the SERPs. Sometimes content tweaks alone isn't enough to move the needle.