Hi guys, I have a 4 year old webmaster site and now, I wish to change the whole site by first wipe out the whole site and then reinstall a new vbulletin forum What do you think is the impact on this strategy?
I would recommend you integrate google site map there that must help. No one know ho that will be. I think that better to do all changes in accordance with google suggestions
Hi Toby, The impact can be as follows... 1> Immediately you will start losing traffic which are coming from your old pages. 2> Your old pages will lose ranking from search engines, because they will not be available. 3> Your new site / forum will take some time to rank & gain traffic from search engines. Measures you can take... 1> Setup 404 Custom Error Page, so the traffic coming from old pages will get redirected to the new home page. 2> Optimize your important sections with main keywords. 3> Once your new site goes live submit in major search engines and related directories. So quickly you will start getting ranking. These are some few points are coming in my mind. Hope this is helpful Cheers...!!! JP...
you must target new userfriendly keyword and optimoze your website again. you should write meta tags new and submit them.
what exactly were you suggestion? where can i find the google suggestion? btw, jpsense, your post make some sense. Thanks! thanks to other who contribute too
Hi Toby, You can get Google's Suggestions on following urls. 1> This is Google's Webmaster Resource Page, very helpful. http://www.google.com/webmasters/ 2> Creating a Google-friendly site: Best practices. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8522 3> Webmaster Guidelines http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&topic=15260 4> Webmaster Tools https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/about.html 5> Webmaster Tools Quick Start Guide http://www.google.com/webmasters/edu/quickstartguide/index.html Hope this is helpful. Cheers...!!! JP