Will I Lose Backlinks and PR if I Migrate to Wordpress?

glennforum · 07-30-2011, 09:36 AM

Hi Fellow Warriors,

I am planning on migrating my website from Joomla to Wordpress may I know if I will be losing my backlinks and ultimately my PR? If so is there anyway for me to continue migration and mitigate the effect of such migration?

dburk · 07-30-2011, 10:38 AM

Hi glennforum,

As long as you maintain the exact same content, page titles and URL structure you will see no loss in backlinks or PR or SERP rankings from the changeover.

If you are not able to maintain the URL structure you can mitigate the loss of backlinks and PR by placing 301 Permanent Redirects to point your inbound links to the new URLs that take the place of your old URLs.

kaedus · 07-30-2011, 10:45 AM

^^ This

Make sure that you have the same URL structure, or at the very least that you use a 301 redirect the related pages.

07-30-2011, 09:36 AM	#1
glennforum HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 126 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Will I Lose Backlinks and PR if I Migrate to Wordpress? Hi Fellow Warriors, I am planning on migrating my website from Joomla to Wordpress may I know if I will be losing my backlinks and ultimately my PR? If so is there anyway for me to continue migration and mitigate the effect of such migration?
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07-30-2011, 10:38 AM	#2
dburk Senior Warrior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tampa, Florida Posts: 4,645 Thanks: 163 Thanked 672 Times in 582 Posts Contact Info	Re: Will I Lose Backlinks and PR if I Migrate to Wordpress? Hi glennforum, As long as you maintain the exact same content, page titles and URL structure you will see no loss in backlinks or PR or SERP rankings from the changeover. If you are not able to maintain the URL structure you can mitigate the loss of backlinks and PR by placing 301 Permanent Redirects to point your inbound links to the new URLs that take the place of your old URLs.
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07-30-2011, 10:45 AM	#3
kaedus HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 105 Thanks: 8 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Re: Will I Lose Backlinks and PR if I Migrate to Wordpress? ^^ This Make sure that you have the same URL structure, or at the very least that you use a 301 redirect the related pages.