Will changes to my site lower my search ranking?

Question

I have a mortgage related website that is #2 for a couple of good search terms. I need to make a few changes to the contact submission form and some of my contact information. I don't want to risk anything lowering my search rank because this is where most of my visitors come from.

Can someone enlighten me on this subject?

Thanks

Charlie

Answer 1

At the contrary! Webcrawlers are searching the net quite frequently and websites which get updated ever once in a while get higher ranks! Take my nickname for example - it may sound unusual, but it is actually the name of a very popular cactus. When you enter "echinopsis" in Google Germany (I'm registered with YC), you get 227.000 results and my Yahoo profile pops up at #16. When you enter "echinopsis" in the English speaking Google, you get 256.000 results and my profile pops up at #84. My profile certainly wouldn't rank that high if I wasn't so active, the same applies to any website, even yours! Try to update it frequently, upload new content, offer freebies if possible and you'll be even more successful than now...:-)