Hi

This is my websites www.goingegypt.com I did some SEO work on it 3 months ago and it is now making some ranking
on google.com. But I need to do more work eg, redesigned the homepage used different keywords, description etc.

Q1. How long will it take for these new changes to take place?

Q2. The new changes may lower my ranking to the current ones, how can I prevent this?

Q3. When you type this url in www.goingegypt.com it goes
to http://goingegypt.com/pharaoh/ I can't do anything about it as all the files are located in this directed /pharaoh/ will this be a problem?

Regards
S.

I'll address Q3. You have some very strange redirection going on here.

goingegypt.com returns a 404, however www. goingegypt.com goes through a 302 and a 301 to wind up at the non-www goingegypt.com/pharaoh. Very confusing.

Use Firefox with the Live HTTP headers plug-in to check the redirects. Then start cleaning everything up. First, decide on a conanical domain, either the www or non-www version and make sure that each content page is only reachable through one or the other, not both. Search around for [url conanicalization] or [domain conanicalization] for information on how to address that.

Second, if your main files have to stay in the /pharaoh directory then, if the site is on an Apache server, use the Directoryindex directive to set the index page to /pharaoh so you can scrap the redirects. Not sure how to do it on a Windows server but a bit of searching should turn something up. (My preference here would actually be to do the bit of extra work and 301 redirect everything in /pharaoh back to the root.)

Getting those roadblocks out of the way will at least ensure that the 'bots will see the site exactly how you want them to.

I'll address Q3. You have some very strange redirection going on here.

goingegypt.com returns a 404, however www. goingegypt.com goes through a 302 and a 301 to wind up at the non-www goingegypt.com/pharaoh. Very confusing.

Use Firefox with the Live HTTP headers plug-in to check the redirects. Then start cleaning everything up. First, decide on a conanical domain, either the www or non-www version and make sure that each content page is only reachable through one or the other, not both. Search around for [url conanicalization] or [domain conanicalization] for information on how to address that.

Second, if your main files have to stay in the /pharaoh directory then, if the site is on an Apache server, use the Directoryindex directive to set the index page to /pharaoh so you can scrap the redirects. Not sure how to do it on a Windows server but a bit of searching should turn something up. (My preference here would actually be to do the bit of extra work and 301 redirect everything in /pharaoh back to the root.)

Getting those roadblocks out of the way will at least ensure that the 'bots will see the site exactly how you want them to.

Thanks for this, I wont be able to put everything in top directory as the CMS software is installed in /pharaoh directory
moving it will kill the whole thing.

I have just installed the Live HTTP headers, but how do you used it?

Just choose it from the Tools menu and a new window will open. Type the url in the Firefox address bar and the GETs and results will show in the window.

For q1.

Once you change your page it will back to zero again because your site must be reindexed first and you will build backlinks again...

Do it the first time you did it before redesigning it...