Changing index and PR results

Will it have any impact

[henry0]

I am in a quandary
I launched a new site about two months ago; Google snapshot has its index page among a others in its cache.
I would like to drastically change that index.
However I will keep same keywords etc.. As well as its original content, pics, alt texts and internal links.

But the overall look will be different and more content added
I am not concerned by the content but by changing the page fundamental look
Does it impact on my pre PR (I am in MSN, Yahoo and in G snapshot cache but do not get yet a PR.

Regards

Henry

[Hanu]

Your PR is not affected by the content of your page. It's affected by

1) how many pages link to your page and
2) the PR of the pages that link to your page and
3) how many links there are on the pages that link to your page.

Don't worry about changing the layout of your page if PR is the only thing you're concerned about. You will see your PR in the toolbar after the next PR update which I expect to happen tomorrow ;-) [webmasterworld.com].

BUT: The layout of your page and it's content do affect it's position in the search results. This is what I do:

Put the keywords into the beginning of the title.
<title>Blue widgets in Egypt.</title>

Give it two weeks and then check your search result position.
Have one H1 tag per page and put the keywords into that. Don't use the same wording as for the title. Use fill words and change the order of the keywords.
<h1>Egyptian widgets in blue ¦ Home</h1>

Have one or more H2 tags per page and put the keywords there.
<h2>The history of blue color widget in Egypt<h2>

Let the keywords occur a couple of times in each paragraph.
<p>Bla bla bla blue bla bla bla bla bla blue widgets bla bla bla egypt blue bla bla bla bla bla blue widgets.</p>

Achor text: Assuming you have more than one page, you must already have some kind of navigation or menu. Put the keywords into the anchor text of your navigational links. For example, don't use 'Home' for the link to the home page. Instead, use
<a href="/">Egyption blue widgets: Home</a>

[henry0]

Hanu,
Thanks, All SEO steps I routinely perform for my own good or clients
But I never did change the overlook of an index (although respecting most of its original content) in the first couple of months of a new site

Looks like I should possibly not being concerned

<edit> Slight post modif </edit>

[Hanu]

On a second thought, changing the layout (I think that's what you mean whenyou say overlook) of all pages or a certain number of pages on a particular site might trigger the sandbox. I doubt though, that changing the layout of one page -- be it the home page or some other page -- will trigger the sandbox. And even if it did, your site might already be in the sandbox anyway. As you say the site is new and I haven't seen a new site that wasn't put into the sandbox. My own personal theory is that a site goes into the sandbox if

A) the domain is new

B) or the domain's registry changed, e.g. owner etc.

C) or a considerable number of pages change

D) or a considerable number of pages are added.

But that's Hanu's crackpot theory number 5831.

[henry0]

The number of added pages has been discussed recently here (where, not sure!)
However it makes sense (or an approximation of sense) only in a certain way such as:
Adding more pages than the original content page number was, which in all honesty should really not be a justification for sandboxing.
Adding content in any volume is not black magic stuffs

BTW
I did change the index page setup adding more content and new links, since I noticed a large G spidering increase.
Time for PR judgment should come soon.

Regards

Henry