Can a Denver business afford to rank poorly in search engines?
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Will a website redesign hurt my rank?
When I am working with a client that already has a website, one of the first questions I am asked is “How will redesigning my website affect my rank?“ Here’s what to expect when launching your new website:
Your website will take a hit in the SERPs for 20-30 days
After updating a website, you can expect ~25 days of your ranking going down. I call it the "white knuckle month," but I've noticed the website always ranks better once the period is over.
Without fail, I’ve found that when I launch a new website, move a website to a new domain, redesign or make significant structural changes to a site, the website will drop in rank for 3-4 weeks.
In working on the content for my new web site, I was working on ways to display the SEO ranking statistics. I came up with this concept of scaling the text relative to the % of clicks they get.
The SEO statistics in this way are pretty dramatic:
- The #1 Result: receives 42% of all clicks
- #2 Result: 12% of all clicks
- #3 Result: 8.5%
- #4 Result: 6%
- #5 Result: 5%
How do the numbers look?
I put together some really neat graphics that show how crazy important ranking well is. I went through some failed ideas, but landed on these two graphics:
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