Thank you Wissam,

I will give it a try today.

Regards,

Si

Oh and i added a couple of extra internal links

Hi Wissam,

I changed the title, H1 tag, description and the entire copy of the page.

Hi all,

I hope there is a search guru out there who can assist with this.

I decided 3 months ago that our SEO contractors weren't doing as well as they should be and after long discussion, i reoptimised all pages myself. Most are performing better now but sales and enquiries went through the floor.

I have today found ranking information from the week before i made the changes, something i thought i had lost. Now i have this, i have found that one of the two main pages has gone from position 1 to position 38. This explains the problem.

I know all things are not equal and in the intervening months, competitors have updated their sites and links, however, this is the security sector and things don't change much, so, all things being equal, would reinstating the old version of the page be likely to reinstate my previous ranking position or thereabouts? or will the MIGHTY GOOGLE punish me in some way for swapping back to a previous page version?

We use a CMS system and all revisions are stored.

The page in question is www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/security-equipment and the keyword in question is 'wireless alarms'.

Any help will be greatly appreciated by this non SEO plebe.

Cheers

Si

P.S. feel free to berate me for not recording all pertinent info about rankings BEFORE i star playing around with the site. It was my first time and i have well and truly learn my lesson.

Hi Jesse,

I will keep you appraised.

Thank you for your support.

Regards,

Si

Hi Jesse,

Thank you for your reply. I am getting real people like you telling me one thing and the SEO college tutor telling me another. Personally i can see benefits in both. I like to see the key information in the title like it is at the moment. My other side that refuses to use text speak and enjoys the written word likes a flowing title.

I am going to leave it until this time next week, collect the analytics and then change style and repeat for a week and see what works best.

Have a good weekend and i always appreciate advice.

Si

Dear William and Mike,

Excellent answer guys, thank you so much. Considering how much a truncated title could screw it up, i'm surprised this is not more widely known. Especially by the 'expert' tutor at SEO College.

Have a great weekend both.

Si

Dear William and Mike,

Excellent answer guys, thank you so much. Considering how much a truncated title could screw it up, i'm surprised this is not more widely known. Especially by the 'expert' tutor at SEO College.

Have a great weekend both.

Si

Hi,

I am fairly new to SEO and have just noticed the end of my title text has been cut off by Google in the serps results.

Everything i have read tells me titles should be maximum of 70 characters, however, Google is only displaying 54. See below

Security systems | wireless | battery powered | Police...

Nobody else on the page is showing more than 54 characters.

Am i missing something obvious?

Any and all help gratefully appreciated.

Thanks

Si

Hi Jesse,

Thank you for your reply. I am getting real people like you telling me one thing and the SEO college tutor telling me another. Personally i can see benefits in both. I like to see the key information in the title like it is at the moment. My other side that refuses to use text speak and enjoys the written word likes a flowing title.

I am going to leave it until this time next week, collect the analytics and then change style and repeat for a week and see what works best.

Have a good weekend and i always appreciate advice.

Si