Changed Title, Description and Text with No Effect

[peterinwa]

A couple years after creating my website it moved up to #1 in Google ranking searching for a single keyword. Needless to say I have been very happy, but I recently discovered that a two-word phrase gets many more searches in search engines.

So two months ago I modified my title, description, and homepage text to include numerous occurrences of this two-word phrase.

While I have stayed #1 with the single word, I have also stayed where I started, about #500, searching for the two-word phrase.

If it makes any difference the original single word appears in my domain name.

How can it be that such significant changes to my title, description and minimal homepage text have had NO effect?

Thank you, Peter

[pmac]

Use some of your internal pages to point links to the page you want to rank. Use the 2 kw phrase in the link text. Get some external sites to also link to the page in quetion using the kw rich anchor text.

Good luck.

[peterinwa]

Thanks, I assumed it might be because all the links to my website use the original keyword. In time there will be external links using the new two-word phrase.

All the links on my pages are gifs, although I do have title=phrase-with-keywords in each link. Does Google see these?

I have also noticed that only my homepage shows up in Google even though one of my other pages is used by 80% of the visitors.

[jimbeetle]

Peter,

Do a...

site:www.yourdomain.com -asdfgh

search on G to see exactly how many pages of your domain it thinks it has indexed.

[peterinwa]

jimbeetle, you're right. They are all there. Thanks.