Title Changes Cause Big Traffic Decline - Should I Switch It Back?

by ChippaDuck

Posted: 13 years ago 6 replies

So my website was getting about 3k visitors a day until I changed the page title a little during February only to see a serious decline in traffic once the new title was indexed (went down to about 1k a day).

I'm just curious as to any advice anyone has? And particularly - should I change it back to the old one?

#back #big #decline #switch #title #traffic

iAmNameLess 13 years ago

Possibly could be the reason. You were probably ranking for the keywords you had in your title. Go ahead and change it back....Normally I would say wait it out, but thats about 66% loss in traffic.
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ezennaemeka 13 years ago

Don't think so. I think it will soon be normal. Just keep updating your blog.
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Jonathan Beaton

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ChippaDuck

Is this a trick question?

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Chris Cole 13 years ago

If your using custom structure urls and they have been using the titles to append to the URL's then you may have altered the url and therefore backlinks and also the search engines will find they may have 404'd it and the url no longer exists when the visitors try to land onto your site.

I'd personally get it back EXACTLY to how is was if this is the impact it has had to your website.
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perfect 13 years ago

Wait say a month if it continues, consider change the title back.
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cavalli11k2 Banned 13 years ago

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- Glenn Leader 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by cavalli11k2
  
  I'm just curious as to any advice anyone has? And particularly - should I change it back to the old one?
  
  Are you the OP? Your comment implies that you are,
  but using a different login. You've been given some
  excellent advice about your titles in this thread, I
  suggest you read it all.
  
  HTH
  
  Glenn
  
  edit 17.03.2011 - It's interesting that rather than
  explain that the OP probably has more than one
  account, they deleted their post instead.
  
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Title Changes Cause Big Traffic Decline - Should I Switch It Back?

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