Hi, I have held SERP for a really good keyword for years and have just changed my website to a newly designed one 6 days ago. Is it normal to experience a drop in SERP's and does it normally pickup again. Thanks
Yes. it happens in starting but after Google indexing your new page will give same result as previous.
As long as you don't change the content and density it should be fine, but it might drop down but just a little.
Thanks everyone for the reassurance. It is nevertheless a tense moment when a website I have spent 6 years building, developing and optimising looses significant SERP for almost all it's keywords. Seems like I will just have to sweat it out. Is there anything else I should be doing? I have setup all necessary 301's and have submitted new site maps to google and bing. Thanks
Hi, Will this meta command be causing the problem at all <meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" />? Thanks