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Should I move this site to WordPress?

by Joshgarrod
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Hi all,

I bought a website a while back that is hand coded HTML (the coding sucks). I'm just getting familiar with Wordpress and I have experienced much better search engine rankings with sites based on Wordpress. At present this website only draws about 600 visitors a month and half comes from the main search engines.

If this were your website, would you move it to the Wordpress?

Stephen King Book Reviews

Also, as the URL paths will change if I move to wordpress I will lose all the backlinks I have from Wikipedia and other links I really want to keep.

Anyone experienced this and how did you overcome it?

Appreciate your help!

Cheers,

Josh
#move #site #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author asepkomara
    Yes definitely i would move to wordpress and use the best design wp theme.
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    • Profile picture of the author arny660
      Yep, without a doubt, move it to WordPress.

      WP makes life so much easier! There are plugins for everything that you can think of.

      I taught myself HTML, CSS and PHP, so I can build a site from scratch and, to be honest, this is how I built my sites initially. I kind've looked down on WP sites. Then I tried them! I have never looked back. So much easier, and looks so much better.

      So, yes, get yourself over to WordPress.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joshgarrod
    Thanks for your opinions guys. What would you do about the backlinks to pages deeper than homepage?
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    • Profile picture of the author rendell
      Originally Posted by Joshgarrod View Post

      Thanks for your opinions guys. What would you do about the backlinks to pages deeper than homepage?
      Create each post with the same Title:

      An example is http:// www. king-stephen.com / Stephen-King-Bio.html

      Create a post and change the wordpree post slug to "Stephen-King-Bio"

      In Permalink under the setting, change the link to "custom":
      "/%post%.html"

      Hope it helps
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  • Profile picture of the author nawshale
    Hi.

    Yes, it would be better if you put the website in Wordpress.
    There are many ways to beautify your site using WP theme and WP applications.
    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author mangaldeep
    yeah for sure your site can be change in to wordpress and ofcourse most effective than normal html website.
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  • Profile picture of the author webseomoz
    Yes you should
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  • Profile picture of the author tenenali
    if you want to earn more then the answer is YES my friend!

    It is better if you use WP because of the many plugins available for you to improve your site more.

    more improvement means more people would appreciate it, therefore this will bring you more visitors and money!
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