[Kimmy07]

Hi,

Does anybody know if redesigning a site would affect search engine placement. We have a potential customer who currently has a very high web presence and doesn’t want this to be affected by a new site. He currently has html pages, so I imagine redesigning these, naming them the same and uploading them to the same place would made absolutely no difference – but, would there be a difference if the site is moved to another host and also if the pages are changed to be asp or the whole thing is database driven?

Thanks if anyone can help.

[T2DMan]

How about just keeping the existing file names. Using htaccess or the equivalent in asp, you can rewrite the url's so that they remain the same, but access the asp file names behind the scenes.

Search engine positions are based on url's, so you really don't want to change the url's unless you really have to.

If you are changing the url's, then make sure that you have 301 redirects from the old to the new url's, and create some pages that list all the old url's. Then google can spider through the old and so be able to see the redirects to delete the old and transfer to the new.