What Have I done?

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I think I May HaveStuffed Up

So..... being an absolute smartypants I thought I'd do some editing of an old post. The post was on page 3 of Google and I was keen to push it up the rankings if possible.

My thinking was..... it's a 1000 word post that I could add another 2000 words to with good informative, updated content. In this way, hopefully I could make it compete better and it would zip up the page rankings and zoom onto Google's first page.

I edited the post and also edited the meta description and maybe that's were I went wrong. Anyway, my plan seems to have backfired as the post is not on the first page of Google, not even on the third page of Google where it was originally. In fact, sadly it's not on the first ten pages of Google, it seems to have disappeared into thin air.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what I did wrong? More importantly, how can I get it to rank well again? Or have I damaged the ranking beyond repair and just have to wait for Google to like it again?

Ggrrrh!

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What is a fetch? Bravo for being so brave.

When you request google to index your site.

How is that done

Hi Deborah if you’re working through the training you’ll get to the part where you are taught to install google search console which you need to do. Otherwise type in ‘how to index your site’ in search and there is training on it there. Jay has done some solid training on it. However, if you are still pretty new I’d stick to working through the training step by step.

I'd agree with James as that was my thinking ; )

As long as you didn't change the slug... I think you'll just need to hang tight 'til Google goes over the updated version.

It would help if you do a Fetch cycle, just for the sake of it...other than that, it's a waiting game.

Hi I was wondering if doing a new fetch would help. I’ll give it a go, probably nothing to lose at this stage. Thanks

I don’t know the answer to your question, but I feel your pain. I’m keen to know the answer as I have many many posts I’d like to start rehashing if it’s possible and worth it.

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