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Old 12-04-2008, 12:13 PM
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I'm thinking about changing my template for newpokerpromotions.com to a 3 column template. However, I am worried this will negatively affect my search engine results. This is because last time i changed templates I went to 0 views for 2 days before returning to my regular 15-20 after I went back to the original template.

Was this a coincidence or did changing the template negatively affect my views.
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Old 12-04-2008, 02:25 PM
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Changing template changes the code on your site, so it will impact your SEO one way or another.

If you use templates that has "pretty" code, I don't think this should be much of a problem. However, some templates contains all sorts of messy code, which can mess things up.
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Default Yes it does

I ve seen the effects of this time and time again.

There are some that google absolutely loves.
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Any time you change anything in the code on a page, it can have positive or negative consequences to your SEO efforts. No matter what you use for a template, your goal should be to have the cleanest code possible.
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Any time you change a site this way it will usually have a negative impact but that is often temporary and as a rule if it's a good change then it certainly can't hurt you long term. SE's love change but at the same time eye it with suspicion initially. That's about the best way I could put this.
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I will say not much effect, but you need to change things in header, footer etc templates as per old template if you optimized that design...
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