Changing well indexed website.

Discussion in 'Google' started by emilbus20, Jun 6, 2007.

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    Sup all. Couple questions here.
    Im looking at buying a site that is very very well indexed for its keyword.
    The site has a lot of content, but it sux lol. Site gets on avg 700 uniques a day.
    The site has so much potential since it turns up when the keywords are searched. Some of the keywords are searched over 300,000 times a month according to overture.
    My main concern is that if I were to purchase this site and totally revamp the site with new seo and new original content and really make it a great site rather thant the straight forward static site it is now, will I lose all my search power.

    Does google frown upon thise. Will the main keywords that are searched not show my site first anymore? Thanks
     
    emilbus20, Jun 6, 2007 IP
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    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    If you change themes then I don't think you should have much of a problem. Try and keep the same urls or do redirects...yes doing redirects is going to be a lot of work but it will be worth it
     
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    emilbus20 Well-Known Member

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    So to just toss everything that is there and completey rebuild it would be bad?
    More or less change the look keep the links and add my own twist?
     
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    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    Does the site use a CMS of any sort?
     
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    emilbus20 Well-Known Member

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    As of now no. Just basic html. I was going to throw wordpress on it and install a phpmydirectory in another folder. Would google eat up the new content and directory? Thanks for the help.
     
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