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Hi, I’ve literally just joined to ask a couple of questions which are keeping me up all night !!
We have an EKM website which has been running for about 6 years and has done us very well. We got customers through magazine advertising so things like google search results were not something we really bothered about.
But this past 12 months has seen some very noticeable changes in how customers are finding us. Sales from magazine readers seems to be falling but sales from google searches has increased quite a lot, so somewhere, somehow, google has started to give our website a big leg-up in searches.
But I have two big questions which I need to address in the next couple of months .....
1. We are closing down for 5 weeks to go and visit relatives in Oz, and I’m thinking I need to direct our home page to a separate page saying “sorry we are closed bla bla bla, check back again in October “
Q. Is this likely to have a negative effect on our google ranking ?
Also at this time I plan to make a big change to our website. Our current EKM theme isn’t fully reactive (I am told) so I plan to change to one of EKMs reactive themes.
Q. Same as the first question really, is this likely to effect our ranking? I’ve played with their test shop system and all text/images etc seem to copy over ok apart from the main homepage text, so I will need EKM to add a couple of extra elements then I can copy over the text.
I’d be very grateful for any advice on the two issues above.
TIA
We have an EKM website which has been running for about 6 years and has done us very well. We got customers through magazine advertising so things like google search results were not something we really bothered about.
But this past 12 months has seen some very noticeable changes in how customers are finding us. Sales from magazine readers seems to be falling but sales from google searches has increased quite a lot, so somewhere, somehow, google has started to give our website a big leg-up in searches.
But I have two big questions which I need to address in the next couple of months .....
1. We are closing down for 5 weeks to go and visit relatives in Oz, and I’m thinking I need to direct our home page to a separate page saying “sorry we are closed bla bla bla, check back again in October “
Q. Is this likely to have a negative effect on our google ranking ?
Also at this time I plan to make a big change to our website. Our current EKM theme isn’t fully reactive (I am told) so I plan to change to one of EKMs reactive themes.
Q. Same as the first question really, is this likely to effect our ranking? I’ve played with their test shop system and all text/images etc seem to copy over ok apart from the main homepage text, so I will need EKM to add a couple of extra elements then I can copy over the text.
I’d be very grateful for any advice on the two issues above.
TIA