Thread: Changing Page Title

Does changes in page title affects its ranking?
I know one of factors which are taken into consideration in rankings a site is the Page Title. If a page ranks high for a certain keyword and the page title is being changed, will the page loss its position or its won't make an effect if i building more off-site optimization to it.

Yes, it certainly affects the rankings. The drop mostly depends on Google trust and domain age according to my experience.

Tinkering about with the Title should only be done if you're not in the top 10 for your chosen keywords (my opinion only).

It's risky and needs careful monitoring.

50/50 chance of it either way. With that said, if you do see a decline in your rankings, you can always change it back to the original title.

Lee

Definitely! Everything about the title could really affect your traffic because of the keywords differences.

As all the above have said it is one of the main factors, but as zoli said its about trust and age too.

i think in Page Ranking none but it SERPs yes, you will notice that your site's SERP ranking will go down because you've changed your site's title....SE will have to do another crawling process again :D

well it's very difficult to say about ranking after changing title of page.
If you have made perfect changes to your page, than it will not effect your ranking but if you'll do something wrong with current title, your ranking may be down.

Changing page title would change the keyword of the page in google index. That's affect your rank. If your pages rank high in google search result, it's better to change nothing.

but if the change of title can do something good for your site then go change it :D

maybe if he change his title he will rank higher than the previous unchanged title rank :D