Changing Static Site to Wordpress -- Risky in SERPS?

momo3 · 12-10-2010, 04:47 PM

Hello

I have a long-form sales pitch with a WP back-end to it.. but I would like to change the sales pitch so IT is in the background and the foreground (home page) is a WP page.

If I change this, will it dramatically change my rankings?

vem · 12-10-2010, 05:06 PM

Depends on the backlinks and the urls in them. If they are all to your homepage then you don't need to worry

Look4VGames · 12-10-2010, 05:15 PM

i wouldn't say goodbye to your serps, but expect a significant dance.

momo3 · 12-10-2010, 05:22 PM

Do you guys think that long-form sales pitches will eventually get filtered out of the top 10 rankings?

Look4VGames · 12-10-2010, 06:29 PM

I would think half the sites i land on after doing a search would have never been indexed in the first place, so I'm going to go with a no. Google is confusion sometimes.

If the sales pitch has a lot of content it is likely to stay for as long as you have the back-links to beat the competition. Hell my "about us" page on one of my websites is ranking above a pr 3 website. My website has 0 pr, but my about us page has 10 back-links, so the power is all in the back-link.

gtk29 · 12-10-2010, 07:27 PM

make sure you do a 301 redirect in htaccess for important pages which have good number of backlinks.

momo3 · 12-10-2010, 09:07 PM

I just feel google will start to look at the length of the page, load time, and they'll desire navigation at the top -- and they'll also look for stop words such as GUARANTEE! or FREE! etc. etc.

Google hates sales stuff I feel. They want to deliver free content

12-10-2010, 04:47 PM	#1
momo3 Advanced Warrior Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Minneapolis, MN USA Posts: 981 Thanks: 2 Thanked 5 Times in 4 Posts	Changing Static Site to Wordpress -- Risky in SERPS? Hello I have a long-form sales pitch with a WP back-end to it.. but I would like to change the sales pitch so IT is in the background and the foreground (home page) is a WP page. If I change this, will it dramatically change my rankings?

12-10-2010, 05:06 PM	#2
vem Active Warrior Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 49 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Changing Static Site to Wordpress -- Risky in SERPS? Depends on the backlinks and the urls in them. If they are all to your homepage then you don't need to worry

12-10-2010, 05:15 PM	#3
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12-10-2010, 05:22 PM	#4
momo3 Advanced Warrior Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Minneapolis, MN USA Posts: 981 Thanks: 2 Thanked 5 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Changing Static Site to Wordpress -- Risky in SERPS? Do you guys think that long-form sales pitches will eventually get filtered out of the top 10 rankings?

12-10-2010, 06:29 PM	#5
Look4VGames SEO Expert War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Greenwood, in Posts: 435 Thanks: 1 Thanked 82 Times in 32 Posts Social Networking	Re: Changing Static Site to Wordpress -- Risky in SERPS? I would think half the sites i land on after doing a search would have never been indexed in the first place, so I'm going to go with a no. Google is confusion sometimes. If the sales pitch has a lot of content it is likely to stay for as long as you have the back-links to beat the competition. Hell my "about us" page on one of my websites is ranking above a pr 3 website. My website has 0 pr, but my about us page has 10 back-links, so the power is all in the back-link.
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12-10-2010, 09:07 PM	#7
momo3 Advanced Warrior Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Minneapolis, MN USA Posts: 981 Thanks: 2 Thanked 5 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Changing Static Site to Wordpress -- Risky in SERPS? I just feel google will start to look at the length of the page, load time, and they'll desire navigation at the top -- and they'll also look for stop words such as GUARANTEE! or FREE! etc. etc. Google hates sales stuff I feel. They want to deliver free content