Web Site Ranking
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Hi Folks,
I made some changes on my website www.gemslearninginstitute.com and published it two days ago. It was ranking on Google first page for a few keywords. I did not touch the pages which were ranking on first page. Since then I am not seeing the website ranking on the Google. Does it take a few days to rank again? How can I ensure that next time if I update the website or publish some blog on my website then it should not effect the ranking.
Secondly, if I would like to rank in three different cities then do I need to create separate pages for each city or how should I proceed with this.
Thanks
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Hi Faisal,
On the local part of your question: yes, if you want to target 3 different cities, the most common proceeding would be to create a really strong unique landing page for each city. This blog post may help:
https://moz.com/blog/overcoming-your-fear-of-local-landing-pages
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This is actually really common. Often new pages will rank very well temporarily while Google "figures out" where to rank them. I can't guarantee that's what's happening, but it's quite possible.
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If you want to make sure Google is crawling your webpages as quickly as possibly after making changes, make sure to use Google Webmaster Tools. Either use the Fetch as Google tool and submit individual updated pages, or if there are many page updates, submit a new sitemap file.
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