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

by glennforum
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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?
#backlinks #lose #migrate #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    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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  • Profile picture of the author kaedus
    ^^ This

    Make sure that you have the same URL structure, or at the very least that you use a 301 redirect the related pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author TanYaV
    Hi! You CAN lose your rankings if you don't properly prepare for migration and do nothing to preserve them.

    First, crawl your website and find most important pages with backlinks and most traffic.
    You're going to need 301 redirects (manual) on each of them.

    Set up SEO links on your new wp site, and after migration map the important pages.

    Use redirection plugin to find broken links and also make sure you monitor the site in google webmasters tools to correct crawl errors. Geerate and submit XML sitemap.

    This post on SEO migration has more tips.
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    Your inner pages will lose PR. Do a 301 redirect to the new pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

      Your inner pages will lose PR. Do a 301 redirect to the new pages.
      Or much easier and smarter than that is to just keep your same URL structure.
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    • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
      Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

      Your inner pages will lose PR. Do a 301 redirect to the new pages.
      I'd use 301's as a last resort and try and build the exact same URL structure.
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