Yeah, if you change Word Press then there ll effect in your page rank but because everything depend on search engine algorithm because when you design your word press theme that was search engine friendly and now if you suddenly change it then surely it ll effect to your ranking.
You nigel and webdevt have a conflicting stand on the issue. I wish to hear more seo experts on this issue. There are times is really necessary to change tempate so suit current trend but I am being withheld by seo effect of such action.
Unless you go from something that is marked up properly to something completely broken, you are fine. To assume changing your wordpress template is going to effect your pr is completely asinine. And actually, I was referring to your ranking. Your page rank has to do with inbound links. It has jack shit to do with your template lol.. Nigel
Thanks Nigel, law. It seems that you have a strong point in that latest argument you posted. It's just that we don't know Google's mind and the algorithm keeps changing before we wake up the next morning.
No worries, just more of the same digital point weirdness. As far as I can tell half of the responses I have read today are from folks who didn't even bother to read the post Nigel
Nigel is correct in that a different WP theme "should" not affect the overall PR of your site, unless either the old or new theme is a VERY poorly written, SEO unfriendly theme. The number of inbound external links to your site won't change, so the total PR passed into the site from external sources should not change. The new theme "could" however change how that PR gets distributed throughout the site using its internal linking since the template does control navigation and internal linking (except contextual links). Some pages on your site "could" have their PR changed, but it's just not likely. For example, if the new theme had a <meta name="robots" content="nofollow"> embedded in every page of the site but the old theme did not have a <meta name="robots"> element then pages on your site would only get credit for the external inbound link pointing directly to each page and would NOT be passed recirculated PR through internal linking structures. But you'd have to be a total SEO idiot to write such a theme.
I wish to hear more seo experts on this issue.The new theme "could" however change how that PR gets distributed throughout the site using its internal linking since the template does control navigation and internal linking (except contextual links).
if u change a good seo optimized themes with another bad seo one then there probably a decrease in PR might happen ,,that's from my experience with changing wordpres themes
It was a few years ago, but I read a report where someone (can't remember which "guru" it was) had actually tested if changing the layout and title tags etc made any difference to PR and it didn't, they even moved the site to a different host and that didn't have effect either. I would be more worried if my SE rankings changed but I've never noticed that happening from changing a WP theme.
Hello forfreedom, that makes sense. I wish I could read the entire article. If you could remember where you read it, please post the source here. Thanks.
I guess that's proof of "no reading before answering." Why would you go from one good one to a bad one? Too many people think that a wordpress theme is the answer to their problems, when it's really their blog content and other stuff that does them in. If you find a better theme, use it! Just think of the visitor first. Since PR is based on backlinks, a theme is moot. If sounds as if you were thinking of changing themes, but don't want to lose any SERP (instead of PR). If the theme uses the same basic title, tags, url and site structure, it should not matter. Stephen C.
I wish I could remember but it was several years ago and I usually have trouble remembering stuff from last week lol