Comments on: Website Transition Planning Critical When Making Changes http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:23:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Singapore SEO http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2783 Singapore SEO Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:12:23 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2783 as mentioned above, if you have decided to rename your urls for some reasons, please remember to use 301 redirect to inform the robots that you have permanently moved the original content to the new page. This will prevent your indexed pages to disappear from the se. as mentioned above, if you have decided to rename your urls for some reasons, please remember to use 301 redirect to inform the robots that you have permanently moved the original content to the new page. This will prevent your indexed pages to disappear from the se.

]]> By: A Web Site Transition Plan « A Dime a Dozen Small Business, Tech and Talk http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2714 A Web Site Transition Plan « A Dime a Dozen Small Business, Tech and Talk Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:21:48 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2714 [...] stated by Jennifer Osborne at Search Engine People; After all, it’s still the same [...] […] stated by Jennifer Osborne at Search Engine People; After all, it’s still the same […]

]]> By: Wii Boy http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2472 Wii Boy Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:49:08 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2472 Thanks Jennifer. If I am totally honest, my day job is nothing at all to do with IT and coding with Dreamweaver is about as far as I have got with web design. May need to dig out a good CSS tutorial! Thanks Jennifer.

If I am totally honest, my day job is nothing at all to do with IT and coding with Dreamweaver is about as far as I have got with web design. May need to dig out a good CSS tutorial!

]]> By: Jennifer Osborne http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2393 Jennifer Osborne Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:31:10 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2393 WiiBoy - I would define massive changes as changes that impact your architecture, content, navigation and internal link structure. Or totally changing any one of those areas. In your case, the tables should be fine given that your content didn't change. You may wish to consider CSS instead of tables in the future as it should save you a lot of coding :) WiiBoy - I would define massive changes as changes that impact your architecture, content, navigation and internal link structure. Or totally changing any one of those areas.

In your case, the tables should be fine given that your content didn’t change. You may wish to consider CSS instead of tables in the future as it should save you a lot of coding :)

]]> By: Jennifer Osborne http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2391 Jennifer Osborne Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:04:56 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2391 Phil - altering the CSS is fine. It's only when the template changes the navigation that it may impact your positioning. Frances - thanks for commenting - I'm really glad that you liked this post! Phil - altering the CSS is fine. It’s only when the template changes the navigation that it may impact your positioning.

Frances - thanks for commenting - I’m really glad that you liked this post!

]]> By: Wii Boy http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2389 Wii Boy Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:39:22 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2389 Can you define "massive changes"? I had some feedback that one of my homepgages looked cluttered so changed the structure and added content in tables. The content itself didn't change though? How is Google likely to see that? PS - I like Ruud's analogy about the friend, reminded me of the film "face-off". Can you define “massive changes”?

I had some feedback that one of my homepgages looked cluttered so changed the structure and added content in tables. The content itself didn’t change though?

How is Google likely to see that?

PS - I like Ruud’s analogy about the friend, reminded me of the film “face-off”.

]]> By: Drew Graham http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2374 Drew Graham Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:06:17 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2374 Please keep me on your mailing list. Thanks. Please keep me on your mailing list.
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]]> By: Jennifer Osborne http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2364 Jennifer Osborne Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:55:04 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2364 thanks Jordan - I agree that it's best to be cautious when rolling out major changes. Thanks for the input! thanks Jordan - I agree that it’s best to be cautious when rolling out major changes. Thanks for the input!

]]> By: Jennifer Osborne http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2363 Jennifer Osborne Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:53:34 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2363 @ Kathy - the SE's love to see you add additional content. And "look and feel" type changes are okay too. If you make massive content changes to your homepage this could hurt your results or it could help your search results depending on the strength of the content changes. The same as your internal links, if you had a number of internal links pointing at a page that is currently ranking well for a keyword and then you remove them, then it could have a negative impact on your results. @ Kathy - the SE’s love to see you add additional content. And “look and feel” type changes are okay too.

If you make massive content changes to your homepage this could hurt your results or it could help your search results depending on the strength of the content changes.

The same as your internal links, if you had a number of internal links pointing at a page that is currently ranking well for a keyword and then you remove them, then it could have a negative impact on your results.

]]> By: Frances Palaschuk http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2360 Frances Palaschuk Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:44:10 +0000 http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/website-transition-planning-critical-when-making-changes.html#comment-2360 I am going through this transition right now... I made these exact mistakes... I almost feel like you wrote this article just for me. Thanks for this great information. I am going through this transition right now… I made these exact mistakes… I almost feel like you wrote this article just for me. Thanks for this great information.

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