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My website has worked its way up to the top of google. It’s a lousy homemade site and the host charges too much. Assuming I keep the domain name but changed hosts and had a new page designed from scratch, would I lose my exalted spot at google?
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Google placement is never guaranteed. If anyone tells you it is, they are trying to sell you something they can’t actually supply.
Google placement is a very complex algorithm and if you change content on a page radically it is definitely possible to lose your position.
The main factors in determining your position for specific keywords are – meta tags, page content, incoming links, and content on pages with links coming into your page.
I wrote a small blog about meta tags here that might be useful.
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I already have a good position. I’m trying to figure out if changing the layout and the host will cause me to lose my position on google.
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Changing your content will – changing your host won’t – layout isn’t very important though it does matter.
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Thanks for the reply. I’m not really changing the content, I’ll use the same photos and words, just have it layed out properly by a real web designer, instead of me and the lame tripod DIY.
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