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?
Does Google care about On-Page SEO?
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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.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.
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