Recreating a website, SEO question

[Ant]

I helped my friend create his website about 1.5 years ago.

 

At the time I was not responsible for the actual web design end.

 

Now since i have learned the skills to do it myself, I would like to redo the site.

 

If I do this what will happen with his ranking on the web.

 

In other words will the new site have to be re-indexed(not sure of terminology)by search engines etc. to be high up on the list in the field he covers? Will he be starting from scratch?

 

Thanks

Ant

[JemsRoker]

Search engine will indexed your new site automatically. But to perform it quickly you can submit your site to search engine manually. Here is a example link "www. google. com /addurl/" to add your site.

[Ant]

Search engine will indexed your new site automatically. But to perform it quickly you can submit your site to search engine manually. Here is a example link "www. google. com /addurl/" to add your site.

 

What about the status, amount of time the site has been live (1.5ys) of the old site.

 

Will that be lost?

 

Ant

[TiggersBounce]

I just redesigned my site, going from a 2 yr old table based layout to CSS. I didn't see any ranking loss on Google, and the new content (those few lines they give in the search results) was appearing within 1 week of being uploaded to the server without me doing anything. That means it was re-indexed pretty quick.

Edited March 10, 2010 by TiggersBounce