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By change in coding one can alter site's meta description in serps.
Soapystar:
Yes, but the observation I made is that ranking remains unchanged, if the content remains unchanged and navigation is in the same place. The rest of the markup didn't matter. Not even the fact, that the navigation is now a nicely structured hierarchic list. It was a series of divs before.
What I'm trying to say is: If you want to change your code or even your CMS, go on, don't be afraid. Simply make sure the content and position of the navigation remains unchanged.
I would have thought this was at least a bit unusual
...I moved from JS popup menus to CSS ones.
...in the past the navigation was at the bottom of the code, now it was at the top.
From your original post, it's hard to tell if your JS pop-up menues were spider-friendly, and whether changing these might also have influenced what you saw.
Has anyone else here experienced changing a site (or even a single page) one day and seing a significant change in SERPS the next?I would have thought this was at least a bit unusual
Unusual and unlikely. I would at least want to know what was cached in Google as an indication of what they had indexed.
Has anyone else here experienced changing a site (or even a single page) one day and seing a significant change in SERPS the next?
My webpage has about 8 links at the top (8 sections) and links on the side that vary with every section.
A few months ago I put my side links at the bottom of the page (they were previously underneath the main navigation) and saw one of my internal page's ranking increase for a specific term.
The problem was that underneath the main navigation, I had this elaborate table for a page heading, so when I did a site command, all my pages except the home page were in the omitted results. So I changed it back again, lost the internal page ranking (wasn't important), but got back all pages out of the omitted results.
Now about a week ago, my pages are starting to go into the omitted results again. So last Friday I put this elaborate table down the bottom, leaving an <h1> tag at the top. The side links are still at the top though.
I am hoping this will sort out this omitted result problem I have. The pages look the same as they were before, it's just I am altering the CSS and HTML code to put content nearer to the top.
Of course it can always be coincidence. I could try putting the navigation back to the top and see what happens...
For the pages that have been indexed and are appearing in Google's cache those pages' placement within serps do not seem to have been affected significantly in either a positive or negative fashion. I do see some pages coming out of supplemental though I don't think that's related to the navigation changes.
