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Change in Website Design

by vithobaaseo
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Hi Friends we are planning to change the design of our existing website. By doing this some of the inner page URL's are also will be changed. So my question is will it affect my website ranking or traffic by changing the design? How to take existing links to new inner page URL?
#change #design #website
  • Profile picture of the author HuiBang
    Yes, redesigning will definitely affect your ranking. Changing your url structure will definitely have impact on your rankings. While redesign, if website url change, you have to inform the search engine where older url have moved. If you don’t , then it will drop your traffic, ranking and sales.
    If the old url's won't be accessible any longer you can use redirection.It is possible to redirect more of your old url's to one new url.
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  • Profile picture of the author larajones
    Redesigning your website doesn't have a big impact on the rankings. But, changing the url structure will definitely affect the rankings. As you've said that the home page URL remains the same, there would be any ranking changes if you target this URL. But, if your inner page links are also being promoted, then ranking changes will prevail.
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    • Profile picture of the author news2cash
      Should I change? or stay the same for link reasons? Change is a part of life go forward there is no lost only new and only gain. This has happened to me many times I always go with forward and change its the same reason why you would renovate property especially for expansion.Next, invest in a few fiverr link submission gigs and add some video submissions to high PR and you should be good to go. If you are more of the DIY type get and use the tool Backlinkbeast.
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  • Profile picture of the author TotalWebsiteControl
    Changing the layout of code on your website does have the possibility of altering your rankings.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      It could change your rankings, for the better or worse.
      How web pages are coded can make a huge difference, as text gets sloshed around.
      Most people think that does not matter. The googlebot is just that. A bot, not a human.

      I would leave the old urls alone. Just do not link to them internally anymore.

      Never get rid of anything that is indexed if you can help it.

      If you only have a few, you can 301 them to the new ones, but only
      if the pages are exactly or similar. However....

      Nobody can force you to change the urls. You can keep current ones
      as is. If someone says they can't, get someone else.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author SureshHiten
    Redesign the website will not effect the SERP result only when the URL will be remain same. If any case the URL will change then it will effect the SERP page.
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidEchor1988
    Yes changing the format of code on your site has the likelihood of modifying your rankings.
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