Google update affects pr only?

[PunkJazz]

I have a site with pr5, listed in dmoz, and well optimized but for a different keyword phrase than it has been listed under for the last 12 months. I made the change to the pages around a week ago. Google now has it indexed under the new keyword phrase, but it does not show in the 1st 10 pages of results for that phrase. Considering pr and overall page optimzation for the new keyword phrase it should be on the 1st or 2nd page of results. There are onlky a couple pr5/6 sites for this keyword phrase, the other several hundred (at least) ahead of me are pr0-4. How long do I have to wait for it to place where it should in search results, or is it possible I am missing something and it's just buried in never never land for some other reason? I have other pages with a similair scenario that were showing good results within a few days of being changed (earlier this month).

[ken_b]

If I understand your question and Google right......

If you made changes since the last deep crawl on your site by Google, I believe you'll have to wait for the update that happens at the end of March update to see any permanent changes in your serps ranking.

The update that folks are waiting for right now (should happen any day) will be based on the deep crawl that happened the first part of February. Of curse, if you got the changes in before the last deepcrawl, you might see the changes with the imminent update.

The indexing you mention is now present could be the result of the freshbot finding your changes to your page. This is not the same as the regular deep crawl, and any ranking changes due to the freshbot may or may not be the same as the changes from the regular deepcrawl/update.

[aspdesigner]

First, check the descriptions and cached copies of your pages to see if Freshbot picked-up the new changes (It sounds like it may have, if you are already coming-up in the results for the new search phrases.)

Second, Google changed their algo late last year to reduce the importance of PageRank, resulting in the type of situation you described. Check your on-page ranking criteria. In particular, take a good look at your TITLE tag, and make sure that your new search phrase is included in it, preferably at the start of the title.