Updating/chaning title tags & meta descriptions
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Hi there,
Can altering title tags and meta descriptions too often have a negative impact on page ranking?
Thank you!
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Ok.
Well changing the page title could help, as well as on-page optimization but what really could help is to create some good content and get (build) some good relevant links to help your page rank.
Have a look at this article
http://moz.com/blog/ranking-factors-2013
Hope it helps.
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I am referring to pages that are not ranking as well as I want them to.
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Well if those pages rank well and you do get traffic why would you update it so often?
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