internetheaven - 9:00 am on Aug 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

Looks like their watching even more closely for signs of what they feel is over-optimization.

That's the impression I'm getting. The theory being that only an SEO would be making changes to the title/alt/etc tags 6 months after the site has been launched/indexed/ranked?

Such would seem to be a direct penalty for performing SEO work rather than any actual Search Relevancy Filter though. Change occurs to correct errors and direct targeting better ... that's good for search engine results isn't it?

If a visitor opens several tabs from the same site at once, then the tabs do not clearly identify each page for them.

Ah! Never thought of that. Of course, that means a second change and so far in this thread the concensus is that the first change was bad enough ... :(

If they didn't like the title tag change, they're going to hate the huge sitewide design overhaul that's going to occur next week. That will make the site much better too for our users so Google will probably drop us another 100 places ... because of course, everything we do is all about Google, right? Not our users.