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[DV-Design]

Recently i posted that i have been very happy recently. With some minor changes i managed to have an explosion of keywords pointing to my site. The traffic is starting to come in and everything is great.

Now heres the hitch. I am making big changes to my site, adding alot of stuff. It was just a phpbb forum before, now it has a front end CMS, a gallery, all on top of the same forums.

The forums are untouched, the layout, the different categories all the same. The url for the forum index is the same (used to be both root and /index pointed to forums), the canges are all external to the forums, the major fifference being that my root directory/url is now a CMS front end not a forum index.

Im wondering should i expect to see my rankings and keywords falter, or only expand after this? Or can only time tell?

[Randy]

If the forum is at the same url location as before your new cms shouldn't have much if any effect on its rankings. Assuming of course you're still linking to it from your CMS pages so that the spiders can find it.

So there shouldn't be any negative effect there at all. From the sound of it you'll simply see the CMS pages start ranking for additional keywords, so should see a net positive effect.

[Katy]

I can't see it having too much of an effect. I recently really messed around with my site - changed the URLs and site structure - all sorts! 301 redirects to the new locations and an up-to-date Google sitemap meant everything was respidered with the new URLs in a couple of days and I saw no detrimental effect on rankings - in fact I think they improved a bit.