Frontpage or Nothing ?

spacey · #1 27-10-11, 10:03 AM

I am wondering what the go here is, i have a vbulletin publishing suite which includes forum, blog and frontpage articles

The site was on second page of google for the last month and i have added posts to the forum and i have done a blog once a week but when i searched for the site yesterday i found it had dropped down about four pages ??

It occured to me that this happened perhaps because the frontpage articles were not as frequent as the remainder of the site

So the question is that if add content to the frontpage is this the main thing that google is noticing ??

Also because i don't wish the frontpage to be 'too long' once more regular content is added if i make subpages and re-arrange the content on the frontpage to them will this cost me ??

So i plan to add more content to front page but also then deligate it to subpages on a regular basis

Thoughts ??

webdeal · #2 27-10-11, 01:18 PM

Don't worry your site will come back again, just keep updating the blog...Google shuffles SERP time to time ...ideally will be if you put the most recent posts on your frontage. Also some more text except most recent posts will not spoil the front page

spacey · #3 27-10-11, 03:32 PM

i have no doubt it is a frontpage issue, i will be doing some shuffling and monitoring how it goes

spacey · #4 27-10-11, 07:14 PM

So many experts here ......so little opinions on this ?

Shane · #5 28-10-11, 08:25 AM

As webdeal said, Google shuffles the SERPs all the time, especially for young sites. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

spacey · #6 28-10-11, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shane

As webdeal said, Google shuffles the SERPs all the time, especially for young sites. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Do you agree that if i promote blog posts to frontpage articles and then do a regular reshuffle of these 'frontpage articles' it will keep the site fresh in googles eyes

Shane · #7 28-10-11, 11:54 AM

I don't know the answer to be honest, but some of my sites have had static front pages for years whilst still ranking well.

In some cases I'm scared to change them in case I stuff something up and the rankings fall!

webdeal · #8 28-10-11, 01:25 PM

I would not change completely , i would add slowly and watch....

I have several websites with the blog posts on the frontpage.

I called them "news" and update daily and Google started to index my site very quickly ( 5 min after post ) ....plus it gives me extra page overall...so site is growing, which is very important if you want to dominate....

works for me....

spacey · #9 28-10-11, 03:40 PM

after adding the article the site moved back to where it was before, so i will be more aware and see what works and what doesn't

Shane · #10 28-10-11, 04:23 PM

The short term ranking change may not be due to on-page changes through.

Just this week I've had a fairly new site move from page 20 to page 1 to page 20 to page 1 to page 10! Now it's sitting on page 1 when searching Google on IE and page 10 when searching on Chrome. Logged out of Google in both cases.

Google is a confusing beast sometimes...!

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