new web template = lost rankings???

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by emforce, Nov 24, 2009.

  1. #1
    so I recently changed my web template for my website from one to the other but I found out today that I have completely lost my yahoo rankings. Whats going on? how can I fix this so that I get the same rankings for the same keywords that I had before? I am tempted to go back to my old template just because of this.
     
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  2. Shailendra Mishra

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    You will regain your rankings in some time. Basically there is no impact of template in ranking but probably you have introduced many broken links in this changing process.
     
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  4. emforce

    emforce Member

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    #4
    I didn't put up as much content on this site so there are less pages. Could this have led to the wipeout of my yahoo keywords? Also I have some duplicate pages atm as I am just trying to get some content up. Could this have some effect?

    my website is http://www.gamercity.co.uk - I can't post in the reviews section yet as I am a newb.

    Thanks for your help guys
     
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  5. anthonywebs

    anthonywebs Banned

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    #5
    your website is down
     
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  6. emforce

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    might have something to do with the fact I am uploading. Check back in 5 minutes please
     
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  7. emforce

    emforce Member

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    should be working now.
     
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  8. internetmarketingiq

    internetmarketingiq Well-Known Member

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    #8
    A template change would not effect rankings unless it removed of fundementally changed the underlying data or caused the site to be turned off and not crawled.

    Your Titles, content, etc. doesn't change. I have changed complete platforms on sites from HTML, to Joomla, to WordPress and not lost rankings.

    So you should look for other causes. Make sure your site is crawlable. Make sure that you have not turned on any robot.txt files that would prevent crawling etc.
     
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  9. vagrant

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  10. zinghana

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    #10
    Depending on what CMS/coding you are using for your website, this should not really effected your rankings it could be the caffeine update as more data-centers are upgraded, or if it is your template maybe you had some SEO work or meta/keywords within your template that may of been lost when updating the template but even then this should not make much difference that quickly, Good luck
     
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  11. emforce

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    whats the maximum size for a graphic image?
     
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  12. Ibn Juferi

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    #12
    Some of the links here are really not SEO friendly. For example:

    
    http://www.gamercity.co.uk/all games.html
    
    Code (markup):
    Would be better to rename that as all_games.html instead of "all games.html".
     
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  13. emforce

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    does it change that much? I didn't know that there had to be an underscore to make it SE friendly. I thought they just had to have keywords in them.
     
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    Your site needs much more optimization. There's many reasons why your site lost rankings, such as downtime, changing site keywords and description, losing important backlinks, and more. When I changed my template, my site actually gained two spots from #6 to #4 on Google so I doubt changing the template has much of an affect.
     
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    #15
    It won't stay like this forever. Keep building backlinks and it will revert back to what it was.
     
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  17. Dismatikz

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    #17
    The meta tags, keywords, descriptions(s) may have changed, unless you use a plugin like All In One SEO.
     
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