Some links were removed and on of my subpage doesn't have any more links but I am not seeing any movement in my ranking ? How long to change, 2 weeks, 6 months or won't there be any change ?
tedster
9:53 am on Mar 8, 2011 (gmt 0)
Some changes don't make a change in ranking - that's just the way it is with Google. You cannot come up with a foolproof answer for this kind of question.
member22
10:03 am on Mar 8, 2011 (gmt 0)
I agree with but how to you ever rank on google unless it is pure luck... or you do tests and tests and tests for years with every possible option until you figure it out...
Shaddows
11:54 am on Mar 8, 2011 (gmt 0)
Nope, that is what I call "fiddling" - which tends to make pages tank regardless of what the changes are.
Their system is currently quite busy, but normally first-order changes are reflected within hours (we are ranked in minutes, while old, stale, static sites might need a day or two). Second order changes (generally semantic ones) might take a few days. Upstream changes used to take weeks to filter down, but they too take days.
Finally, SERPs are a BLEND of site-types. If a score-change neither warrants a re-blending, nor allows another of your site-types to overtake you, nothing will visibly happen. If you are on the fringe of your site-type, making changes might change your designated site-type, causing dramtic ranking changes that might appear difficult to explain in terms of incremental changes. ---------- I WOULD recomend constant testing on a test site, and changes to your money site to be planned and implemented in a single step, with a pre-stated expectation of what should happen, with monitoring to verify reality with expectation.
And yes, not everyone does that. But I would bet those that do are far less prone to unexpected drops.
aristotle
12:21 pm on Mar 8, 2011 (gmt 0)
Have you checked to make sure that Googlebot has even crawled the pages since you changed them? If it hasn't crawled them yet, it doesn't even know that they have changed.
