Will Redesign affect my PR ?

[anandnadaar]

Hi,
I am planning for a redesign of my site, with changes in the URL. but recent PR updates have given me PR3 for homepage and PR2 to some of inner pages.

Will the redesign with the URL change affect my Rankings
OR
I can Redesign it but should keep the URL as it is.

Please advice.

[aaron2005]

I have done this, keep the urls and the content the same if possible and you will be fine, if it is cleaner code you might even go higher. I changed my sites to Wordpress blogs and removed all the blogging crap making them basically smooth regular websites in .php with rss swingage dude! =)

On a site that is a pr5 and was doing good I changed the entire thing including content and it is hosed, dead in the water for who knows how long. You get punished for changing a sites focus? Lame!

[whipnet]

Any page that has any PageRank, I would consider keeping. Redesigning, but keep the page's name the same.

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