Changing your title tags to often

I’ve searched some on the web, and cannot find much information about the affects of changing your title tags too often, and when is too much.  Over the past couple of months one of my primary sites ranked very well on Google, and then my web hosting company had some issues where my account was suspended for two days.  During this apparent suspension the title tags for some of the websites I manage changed to “Site has been suspended“.  Google did index this new temporary site suspended title, then of course after two days my titles changed back.   Please note I had just changed my title tags a few weeks before, but before that it had probably been over a year.  When my title tags were again indexed correctly on Google, my site had slipped from the first page for some of the most importantly targeted keywords to “no where to be found” on google.  I know there are many factors to receiving good Google PR, but this coincidence has me in fear…Any thoughts, advice??  If I’ve been marked down for these unintentional frequent changes, how long do you think it will take to get the red flag removed..if ever?

The Importance of Staying on Top of Your Blog for Google

It is interesting to watch some websites I work on(in my spare time), go up and down when being returned in Google’s search results.   Google does say their results are updated frequently, regardless of what the page rank tool might say.  I must agree I have found them to update the most frequently of today’s top 3 search engines, Google, MSN, and Yahoo.  Since many of us can’t afford a huge paid marketing campaign, in my opinion a Blog is best way for us to get quality links and visitors and increased page rank to our web sites. 

Since my full-time position is a REALTOR, I don’t find as much time as I would like to Blog, but when I do, I can definitely see the Google effect usually within a week or two.  Since I am not a writer by nature, probably not a lot of us trying to make something from nothing on the web are, we’d better get practicing if we want to share a place at the top with our competitors.

The same story about “content”

I guess it’s common sense, offer valuable content on your website and you’ll get visitors.  I think most of us have tried it, piece some code together, maybe use free development tools and throw a few web pages up.  Then, expect good results.  It’s not impossible, I’ve done it before, but if you intend to remain up high, you’ve got to work.  Make sure you know your product, and offer something your visitors will return for.  Start by cleaning up that code, make sure you’re “search engine friendly”,  and create some good content.  Just like any business, not only do you need first time visitors, but want people to return to do business with you.  The more frequently you get someone to come to you website, whether to buy something or just for information, the more often you will likely do business with that visitor, or someone that visitor referred.  So, how can you get people returning to your site? 

SEO, what have you been up to?

Wow, it has been almost a year since my last post.  I haven’t been paying a whole lot of attention to SEO lately, so I’m feeling a little rusty on current events.  I have however noticed some significant changes with Google search over the last few days.  Many of my web sites had their  “Google page rank” decrease, yet they started showing back up in Google’s search results.  I’ll take that I guess!  There are a few websites I especially wish I had more time to “earn” them a spot at the top.

SEO – Search Engine Optimization and Breaking Barriers

I feel like I have really learned alot over the last few months in the SEO world and would like to share some things that really helped me. I can’t believe how long it took me to finally learn how to get sites I have worked on anywhere worthwhile in the major search engine results, especially on google. It really took having use of a site that already had a well established page rank before I was able to make a major breakthrough on my more unknown sites. While I still have a long way to go, I really feel like I am gaining the Skills and knowledge to call myself an expert.

I would like to offer three oddball ideas that really helped me learn the most about SEO. I think these recommendations are especially useful if you are having trouble getting your new site recognized by the major search engines, and you have already done the standard recommendations given on most SEO sites.

 Idea 1: Get a personal space on site that already has Internet recognition.   Even a subdomain of a well recognized domain will work.  Start promoting a single page with search terms of your choice.  Make sure you have control over most of the text in the title tag, and Meta description tag.  Start getting incoming links to this page.  Make sure the link anchor text contains the text you are promoting on your page.

Idea 2: Get multiple domains names and try different ideas on different sites.  For two years I was afraid to do certain things to my sites that were supposedly going to hurt my sites search engine rank, and because I only had one domain at the time I was afraid to take any chances.  I now have multiple domains and have learned alot from trying different adjustments on each site.  You need to be able to take chances to see for yourself what works and what doesn’t.

Idea 3:  Use free catolog or other software that has already been written.  Make sure the software you decide to use is from well known site itself, and that they use the same or very similar software to the software they are offering for your use, and make sure they have good Search engine recognition themselves.  If they have good Page rank or (pr) then it is likely that if you fill your site with good content, and get some incoming links, your site will also start to show in the search engine results, for your sites relevant search terms.   Now pick apart the html output code and compare it to what you know.

Lastly, make sure to exercise patience, patience, patience.   You can’t make changes and expect to see results over night.  I would say for each major change you make to a site, you should give it at least 6 to 8 weeks before deciding whether the change worked or not.  If you try these three ideas all at the same time, I’m sure at the end of six months time you will have a whole new perspective on SEO.