bigcat1967
New Member
Hey guys:
I have a friend who lost 2/3 of his traffic from slipping from #1 to #5 for the keyword phrase "credit card processing by phone". However, we were looking at his title tag - and it reads:
Small Business Merchant Account - Accept Credit Cards by Phone
We thought that maybe we should change it to look like this:
Accept Credit Cards by Phone - Small Business Merchant Account
The former - the keyword phrase we're going after gets cut off (within the title tag) and we don't think the bots are seeing the whole title - if we change it, then maybe we're thinking that we'll regain our #1 position again, or at least move up within the top three. However, with Google being so unpredictable - we are afraid to touch anything and might just go strictly by expanding his website with putting new articles on the site and also doing some social networking.
Question: Should we change the title tag to the suggested or are we taking a big risk in doing so? This is his main income - so anything we touch on the index page could lower it. Let me hear from you guys - what do you think?
btw - his site is http://accept-by-phone dot com
I have a friend who lost 2/3 of his traffic from slipping from #1 to #5 for the keyword phrase "credit card processing by phone". However, we were looking at his title tag - and it reads:
Small Business Merchant Account - Accept Credit Cards by Phone
We thought that maybe we should change it to look like this:
Accept Credit Cards by Phone - Small Business Merchant Account
The former - the keyword phrase we're going after gets cut off (within the title tag) and we don't think the bots are seeing the whole title - if we change it, then maybe we're thinking that we'll regain our #1 position again, or at least move up within the top three. However, with Google being so unpredictable - we are afraid to touch anything and might just go strictly by expanding his website with putting new articles on the site and also doing some social networking.
Question: Should we change the title tag to the suggested or are we taking a big risk in doing so? This is his main income - so anything we touch on the index page could lower it. Let me hear from you guys - what do you think?
btw - his site is http://accept-by-phone dot com