Help! Want to switch themes without losing SEO

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I’ve had the same website theme for the past 7 years. Now I want to update to a new theme. I would love to just start from scratch and build it completely new but will that wreck my seo ranks etc?

I’m thinking of switching to Astra. But after reading the instructions on the Starter Templates Plugin FAQ it says that it is recommended to install and import a website demo on a FRESH WordPress installation or a blank website to avoid overriding of settings and page design.

What does this mean? I can’t install over my existing theme? Again I’m worried about starting fresh if it means losing page ranking seo etc.

Thanks so much for any advice you can give me.

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