How to set up redirects when converting site to Wordpress?
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I'm working on converting a static HTML site to a Wordpress site.
There are quite a few content pages, and I'm wondering what are the "best practices" for doing the transfer in respect to keeping the Google love?
Here's what I'm thinking presently:
1. I can leave the old HTML files where they are on the server, and visitors to the home page (the new Wordpress site) will never see them. Google however will continue to see them.
The exception would be the original index file, which I'll need to delete or rename so it doesn't hijack Wordpress from loading.
2. As I have time, I can replace the code on those original pages with redirect code to the new Wordpress content pages.
What I'm trying to avoid, of course, is either Google or a web searcher coming up empty when looking for a page.
So my questions therefore are...
a. Is my approach basically sound?
b. Should the redirects be put in place gradually, or as quickly as possible? There's maybe 100 content pages.
Thanks!
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