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.
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.
Without seeing the site all anyone can do is guess It would also be better to post the question in http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=92
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
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.
http://analyze.websiteoptimization.com/authenticate.php?url=http://www.gamercity.co.uk/ you need to drastically reduce the file size of some of your graphics. you have one thumbnail that is 1604.29 kB by it's self
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
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".
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.
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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The meta tags, keywords, descriptions(s) may have changed, unless you use a plugin like All In One SEO.