by Miranda Miller, for Search Engine Journal
If only good intentions drove results in SEO.
Sadly, that’s not the case, as Tamar from Israel discovered recently. She submitted the following to Ask An SEO:
“Help! I just started working at a start-up. The blogs are a horrible mess for many reasons, but there are about 20 blogs out of the 140 that are converting a few people to try our software.
I wanted to do the minimum to optimize them, so I corrected all of the H-titles, made sure each post had a meta description, and checked that any images had an alt tag.
In less than a day, ALL of these blogs lost their position for the main keywords they were ranking for, according to Google Search Console. What gives?!
I can’t find an explanation for this anywhere! Almost all of them dropped by at least 20-30 in position for a keyword… going from #9, for example, to #55 for a top query. Please help.”
Although Tamar did submit the domain, we have no insight into which 20 of the 140 blogs indexed we’re discussing here.
Further, we have no context as to which keywords she was ranking on and lost positioning for.
Were this my client, those would be the first things I would want to…
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