Comments on: Can Changing Your Theme Change Your Serps?

By: twin mattress

twin mattress — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:48:11 +0000

i’ve recently experienced this, but haven’t concluded that it’s because i changed my title and description. i think this makes sense because when you change your title, google dances your site and sometimes it would take weeks for your site to come back
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By: Paint Kitchen Cabinets

Paint Kitchen Cabinets — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:47:43 +0000

i should be more aware of that!
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By: Tennis Ball Machines

Tennis Ball Machines — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:35:12 +0000

I believe changing your theme can have an impact – either positively or negatively. Some themes are designed with SEO in mind and make sure your keywords appear in the right places with the right tags – H1 etc. Other themes tend to use some of the main html tags for widget headings and such – who wants to rank well for “recent posts”?
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By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:55:59 +0000

Just changing your theme won’t affect much in the way of rankings. But if you change all those things you mentioned – SEO plugins, categories, titles and pages – then you can expect to see a change in rankings. I’d say you have to wait a few weeks to see if they improve.
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By: Simon Wilby

Simon Wilby — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:54:42 +0000

A big and complete make over of your site will surely can kill your rankings. It will change the permalinks and the structure of your page on Search engine’s eyes.

That is my opinion. I don’t know if I am on the right thinking.

By: TigerTom

TigerTom — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:04:26 +0000

I suppose making a drastic sitewide change like that will flag up an alert at the SE’s. Because they’re so hot on catching spammers and grey-hat SE0, you have to be very careful now changing parts of a site traditionally targetted by optimisers: title, page name, description, headings, links, keyword density.

It’s enough to make you go black-hat. I sometimes think it would be simpler.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:04:35 +0000

I recently changed the theme of a straight html site and seen little change, but then the changes were just to the look of the site. I made a point to keep all the header tags, title tags and page names exactly the same. Although, I’m sure most blogs will return to there current serps eventually. I guess it depending on the amount of work being done.

By: ella

ella — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:24:33 +0000

I had wondered this as well, I'm glad to know that my SE rankings wont completely be devastated!! hehe .-= ella´s last blog ..Naturally Restore Eyesight =-.

By: Title Insurance Florida

Title Insurance Florida — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:33:17 +0000

Off course changing theme can affects our serps for some people changing the theme means only changes in template design but when we changes theme as you did need to update plug-ins, some new effective add-ons, little bit changes in optimization, updation required in whole blog, sure you post will be helpful blogger like us.

By: Rod@British Lions Rugby

Rod@British Lions Rugby — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:32:46 +0000

Thanks for the warning, since I’m about to dive into changing one of the main WP sites I look after. Actually I’m hoping to get serp benefits from doing it, as I don’t believe the theme I’m now using is particularly good for SEO (heading tags in all the wrong places, for example). But you’re right – one has to also keep an eye on the potential downside!

I like the theme, by the way!