Had to do a redesign

How to do some damage control

[korkus2000]

I had to do a redesign on a site. The design was getting old and it is in a cutting edge industry. The redesign only effected the header and the footer which I include. All of the pages still have the same content and titles. No page names changed either.

Is there anything I should do to help keep rankings of pages? Does the redesign not even matter since it is only the container and not the real meat of the page?

[lazerzubb]

There is always a certain part that will change on the page, hopefully your page will rank better than before, but often the problem with "cutting edge" pages is that a lot of the main keywords are in picture files, which pretty much is impossible for search engines to use for ranking purposes.

Be sure to have the main keywords targetted around the page/site. Otherwise since most search engines uses link pop a lot to rank pages, you don't see the same up-down ranking due to page being redesigned.

[theposter]

just a redesign will not matter. Its the content that really matters. However if you did change the linking structure and put them in javascript drop downs etc, that might be a problem. Sticky me the urls ofd the new layout and the old ones and i can tell u if its a problem or not.