Site redesign help

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by bewise, Oct 2, 2007.

  1. #1
    I am about to embark on a site redesign for a 5 month old website. The site has been growing in popularity month on month and has seen organic traffic from google increase steadily over the same period.

    When I launched the site I didn't have a website designer on board, so used a template from one of those crappy website template sites. As a result the site looks poor and clunky and fails to provide a positive user experience. Now that the website is revenue generating, i can afford to put some resources behind getting it redeveloped.

    Can some DP members offer any advice on how best to redesign the site so that I don't lose ranking for any of my keywords. I plan on keeping the structure of the site the same, witht he same URL's so shouldn't need any redirects. The copy may change, but more likely I will add to the existing copy that I have. The linking structure is the one area that will probably change the most.

    is there anything i need to be aware of before i start? Any hints, tips and advice would be much appreciated. Thanks
     
    bewise, Oct 2, 2007 IP
  2. thegypsy

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    Well all should be fine if the;

    1. Page names/ site structure stays the same
    2. Page TITLEs stay the same
    3. Content stays the same (with additions)

    Do explain this more -

     
    thegypsy, Oct 2, 2007 IP
  3. bewise

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    There will be more pages for the site, so there is more than likely going to be more links per page.
     
    bewise, Oct 2, 2007 IP
  4. thegypsy

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    That shouldn't be a big issue... so given what U have put to this point, I can't see any major worries really. :0)
     
    thegypsy, Oct 2, 2007 IP
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    I think it is ok to change the title if the site adds another targetted keywords. But old keywords within the title are still there.
     
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    thanks for the heads up guys
     
    bewise, Oct 3, 2007 IP