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Just thought I'd share some information.

I recently overhauled my site with a new design, 75% new content, brand new outbound links and 100% CSS. In addition, my keyword density rose from around 2% to 3.5%.

Yahoo indexed my site and rose me to #1 as a result (probably because of the keyword density I imagine), but Google has since indexed my site and my position has not changed at all. Now, I may be incorrect in assuming that serps are updated with each "re-index," and maybe Google will adjust my site's position up or down eventually, but if this isn't the case, and my assumption is correct, Google has basically ignored my new on-page developments altogether.

I often read posts in several forums titled: "New Site Design, Position Dropped," and fully expected a change one way or another from Google, but maybe on-page SEO plays such a small factor in Google that it's virtually obsolete for competitive keywords, and only plays a factor for "not-so-competitive" keywords.

any thoughts?

Hi Jason,
Google still love on-page optimization, but it takes time to show the results,
Proper use of keywords at different places and other onpage tactics will definitely help you.

Jason, I will only suggest that please don't try any black hat otherwise improving site navigation, links would help.

I think Google still likes on page optimization. But I agree that it probably takes Googlebot a few crawls to index your changes and make those changes improve your search listings.

viradian wrote:I think Google still likes on page optimization. But I agree that it probably takes Googlebot a few crawls to index your changes and make those changes improve your search listings.

I agree. On my own opinion search engine must give a 70% criteria on on-page optimization rather than backlinks because some owner of the sites buy links just to rank well in search engine.

ya janna is right. some people dont make any efforts, they just buy some links and then they get nice pr