Will I hurt a Google Ranking by recreating a site

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A client of mine currently has a website up that has a very good google ranking. If you google “Christmas Lights Miami” his business comes up at the top.

He is not happy with the design of his site, however, so I will be recreating it for him. I want to make sure that I will not affect his google ranking though. As long as I keep all the same html wording and links to outside sites, will his ranking remain the same? Is there anything specific I need to be worried about?

Any info will be greatly appreciated. This is a great site and has proved very helpful, thanks to all who contribute.

I am a relative newbie to website design but have been working with Freeway Pro for over a year now. I have my own music store and started designing my own site after I could not find someone who would work within my budget and could produce a website to my liking. If anyone is interested you can check out my site at http://www.theguitaroutlet.com. It is still a work in progress, but any feedback I can get is always great! I have found that I enjoy website design very much and would like to make some extra money doing so.

Thanks for the help! …Pete

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Try and keep your page names on the new site the same as the old site, For example if the About Us page on the old site was www.sitename.com/about.html - keep it the same, do not change it to something like www.sitename.com/aboutus.html

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If you don’t want to affect it in any way, then don’t change the Page URLs, Page Titles, Outside Links or HTML content.

If his site was done a while ago, you could improve it too by structuring the page better - H1, H2 etc. and addind ALT Tags to images.

I believe that google does like sites that are updated, and kept new/fresh, but not 100% sure if a full rebuild will affect anything in either a good or bad way.

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On 3 Jun 2010, at 17:55, Peter Wlazlo wrote:

A client of mine currently has a website up that has a very good google ranking. If you google “Christmas Lights Miami” his business comes up at the top.

He is not happy with the design of his site, however, so I will be recreating it for him. I want to make sure that I will not affect his google ranking though. As long as I keep all the same html wording and links to outside sites, will his ranking remain the same? Is there anything specific I need to be worried about?

Any info will be greatly appreciated. This is a great site and has proved very helpful, thanks to all who contribute.

I am a relative newbie to website design but have been working with Freeway Pro for over a year now. I have my own music store and started designing my own site after I could not find someone who would work within my budget and could produce a website to my liking. If anyone is interested you can check out my site at http://www.theguitaroutlet.com. It is still a work in progress, but any feedback I can get is always great! I have found that I enjoy website design very much and would like to make some extra money doing so.

Thanks for the help! …Pete

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