Will a change of theme effect search engine rankings?

For the past year I’ve been endeavouring to rank this site as an SEO sandbox. To attain the high rankings I chose the most SEO friendly theme available WP Thesis. Thesis is for the fascist SEOers delivering your content with brutal coding and very little else. Search engines love the code as it delivers a no frills site with java no where to be seen.

Well for all the good it has done for my rankings, it has to be said that the blog is looking a little nasty. With my tag cloud (left) floating haphazardly and my twitter updates doing nothing more than filling space, it is time to give my blog a face lift and offer you some more than simple text on background.

My only concern is a drop in rankings, Google never tells you how firmly you hold the number 1 spot and how secure your ranking is. You are left with no other alternative than to take the plunge and slip a new frock on with the hope that everything stays as is.

So watch this space! I won’t be changing overnight but I’m sure you’ll notice when I blog about the success or failure of my theme transition.

Cheers

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