Is changing theme could effect SEO?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by mrbento, Nov 8, 2009.

  1. #1
    What happened to our index page if we change our blog theme?
    Any experience?
     
    mrbento, Nov 8, 2009 IP
  2. Feathers

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    This depends on the change; usually if it's not to drastic in effecting the content, heading structure and internal link structure you won't have any effects; however, there might be a temporary fluctuation in results as Google caches the new pages.
     
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  3. Traffic-Bug

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    This depends on the scope of the change that your wordpress theme change brought upon, if it installed different directory hierarchy, changed home page url, etc. then you may expect a lot of fluctuations in the rankings.
     
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  4. mrbento

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    Thanks brothers,

    So its means better not to change it right?
    because I am not sure the characteristic os this new theme I would like to set
     
    mrbento, Nov 8, 2009 IP
  5. magnettechnologies

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    #5
    no its not affect seo, content and other part will affect seo
     
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  6. Roger_Silvester

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    #6
    Hi there,
    Changing theme doesn't affect your index pages, until you change it's content, or internal links.
     
    Roger_Silvester, Nov 8, 2009 IP
  7. JessieJames27

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    There is no positive and negative effect on your site if the sudden change only occur in your theme.
     
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    #8
    Its not effect anything if you change only layout. When you change your content, links and heading, keywords then it might be change your rank, index and so on.
     
    wblteam, Nov 8, 2009 IP
  9. Red_Virus

    Red_Virus Well-Known Member

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    #9
    only of your existing theme is having issues, then migrating to a new theme like Thesis wordpress theme will definitely help a lot in terms of scalability and modularity of code.
     
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  10. mrbento

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    Thanks All
    Now I am changing without fear anymore
    Nice response
     
    mrbento, Nov 9, 2009 IP
  11. sarpras2005@yahoo.co.in

    sarpras2005@yahoo.co.in Well-Known Member

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    #11
    As my experience, changing theme not effect SE traffic of blog
     
  12. sousen

    sousen Active Member

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    No there is no change to get any effect if you only change your them, but please remember if only them if you do change meta tag, title etc then it will be effect
     
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    #13
    Changing of theme will not affect SEO. But try to make the changes search engine friendly.
     
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    If you only change pictures, then no. If you change HTML, then yes.
     
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