My page title NEEDS to be changed, what should I do

livemusic · 06-21-2011, 09:48 AM

I have two pages:

red-county.html
green-county.html

And red-county.html is titled "Sell your house in Green county." I made a mistake and it was uploaded months ago and now enjoys the #1 spot in Google for the search term for Red county. But, it should obviously be titled "Sell your house in Red county."

From a SEO standpoint, I can't get any higher than #1. But... when people see this title in the SERP listing, I don't want any of them to click away because they might think it's about Green county, instead of Red county. My red-county.html page is up there because of all of the info about Red county. The page is fine, the title is not.

What do you think I should do?

dburk · 06-21-2011, 11:44 AM

Hi Bill,

Do what you think is right. You are talking about changing the page title to make it more relevant, right? I see no problem with that.

It is only a problem if you are changing the URL. Everything related to your page's ranking in the search engines is stored by URL. Don't the change the URL if you can help it.

livemusic · 06-21-2011, 11:48 AM

Reason I ask is because I had read recently that you are not supposed to change the URL or the title. Beats me. Anyone else?

rahmanpaidar · 06-21-2011, 12:00 PM

Depends which is important for you: your business or your traffic.
Once you change the title you risk at decreasing temporarily your search engine rank.

BTW, last time I did a minor change in a main page title, I didn't notice search rank flactuation.

dburk · 06-21-2011, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by livemusic

Reason I ask is because I had read recently that you are not supposed to change the URL or the title. Beats me. Anyone else?

Hi Bill,

It is important to not change the URL, but the page title is an important element, not only in establishing page relevancy, but in influencing the CTR of your listing in the SERP. You should make every attempt at optimizing your page title.

In your case, you have an irrelevant page title that you want to change to make it relevant. The result should be far more beneficial than harmful. Now this could cause the search engine to re-evaluate your page and it should find your change to be more relevant and improve your search traffic with more targeted visitors.

Craig McPherson · 06-21-2011, 01:08 PM

Bill,

I change titles without any trouble as long as the url remains the same.

JB777 · 06-21-2011, 01:25 PM

If you change your page title you risk losing your ranking. Only do it once or you could get heavily penalized for months.

Changing the title will have a short term negative effect on how my site ranks.

netw6000 · 06-21-2011, 01:35 PM

Hello:

Just go ahead and change it. It's just one of many on page ranking criteria that google uses. Here's a tip for you... I put several keyword phrases in the title seperated by the | character and all the phrases seem to get indexed seperately.

leannrimes · 06-21-2011, 10:50 PM

Changing title will really affect the rank of your site.

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dburk Senior Warrior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tampa, Florida Posts: 4,643 Thanks: 162 Thanked 671 Times in 581 Posts Contact Info	Re: My page title NEEDS to be changed, what should I do Hi Bill, Do what you think is right. You are talking about changing the page title to make it more relevant, right? I see no problem with that. It is only a problem if you are changing the URL. Everything related to your page's ranking in the search engines is stored by URL. Don't the change the URL if you can help it.
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livemusic HyperActive Warrior Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 161 Thanks: 8 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: My page title NEEDS to be changed, what should I do Reason I ask is because I had read recently that you are not supposed to change the URL or the title. Beats me. Anyone else?
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rahmanpaidar طراحی وب سایت Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 179 Thanks: 12 Thanked 15 Times in 15 Posts	Re: My page title NEEDS to be changed, what should I do Depends which is important for you: your business or your traffic. Once you change the title you risk at decreasing temporarily your search engine rank. BTW, last time I did a minor change in a main page title, I didn't notice search rank flactuation.

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Craig McPherson Advanced Warrior Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Melbourne Posts: 823 Thanks: 116 Thanked 355 Times in 180 Posts Social Networking	Re: My page title NEEDS to be changed, what should I do Bill, I change titles without any trouble as long as the url remains the same.
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JB777 Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 48 Thanks: 1 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Re: My page title NEEDS to be changed, what should I do If you change your page title you risk losing your ranking. Only do it once or you could get heavily penalized for months. Changing the title will have a short term negative effect on how my site ranks.

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livemusic HyperActive Warrior Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 161 Thanks: 8 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	My page title NEEDS to be changed, what should I do I have two pages: red-county.html green-county.html And red-county.html is titled "Sell your house in Green county." I made a mistake and it was uploaded months ago and now enjoys the #1 spot in Google for the search term for Red county. But, it should obviously be titled "Sell your house in Red county." From a SEO standpoint, I can't get any higher than #1. But... when people see this title in the SERP listing, I don't want any of them to click away because they might think it's about Green county, instead of Red county. My red-county.html page is up there because of all of the info about Red county. The page is fine, the title is not. What do you think I should do?
	Bill

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netw6000 Active Warrior Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 43 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: My page title NEEDS to be changed, what should I do Hello: Just go ahead and change it. It's just one of many on page ranking criteria that google uses. Here's a tip for you... I put several keyword phrases in the title seperated by the \| character and all the phrases seem to get indexed seperately.
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leannrimes Warrior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 1 Post	Re: My page title NEEDS to be changed, what should I do Changing title will really affect the rank of your site.
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