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Migrating Drupal to Wordpress Seo Pitfalls ?

by AmazonGuy
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I am thinking of migrating from Drupal to Wordpress for one of my sites as it seems theres to much never ending hassle with this content management system.

I have found a few options on how to migrate it to Wordpress but Im not sure how much time it will take to or if my rankings will pitfall.

Has anyone tried out doing something similar without more than a few hours of work and or without losing seo benefits ?
#drupal #migrating #pitfalls #seo #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author TanYaV
    Hi! Take a look at this video , it suggests a way to migrate Drupal to WordPress "without more than a few hours of work".

    As to SEO, you have to properly prepare for the migration and crawl your site to find out the most important links. After the migration, do 301 redirect for all links, also it may be a good idea to update your most juicy backlinks. Still, it may take time for google to recognise your redirects, and you may have a traffic drop for 2-3 weeks, but later on, if all is fine, you'll get the traffic back. Plus, 301 redirect allows to save your rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by AmazonGuy View Post

    I am thinking of migrating from Drupal to Wordpress for one of my sites as it seems theres to much never ending hassle with this content management system.

    I have found a few options on how to migrate it to Wordpress but Im not sure how much time it will take to or if my rankings will pitfall.

    Has anyone tried out doing something similar without more than a few hours of work and or without losing seo benefits ?
    How many existing pages do you have on the Drupal site?

    If you know HTML & php you could make the WP templates generate the same finished HTML that Drupal templates are creating. Look at your Google Cache (text version) that's what matters most to Google (SEO), plus the existing internal links/URLs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Originally Posted by AmazonGuy View Post

    I am thinking of migrating from Drupal to Wordpress for one of my sites as it seems theres to much never ending hassle with this content management system.
    Drupal is not as easy as wordpress to learn but once you learn it there is no "never ending hassle"

    As matter of fact its pretty robust and FAR more powerful that wordpress (gets hacked less too)

    Before you consider messing with your site and losing whatever position you have think about possibly investing in learning it a bit more.
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    • Profile picture of the author AmazonGuy
      Well I have been having a few problems , fixing them and refixing them. The point was to migrate to have a easier to use system and faster add new content.

      I have no knowledge of programming nor php nor drupal in that matter.

      Whatever I know is basically from tutorials and google search .

      I'm glad I have been having these problems as it makes me better understand the way this cms work. Today I have finally created a sidebar node block that references content in the same category.

      This I wanted to do after reading up on Yukon's post on siloeing the site (always wanted to silo but because of lack on knowledge couldnt effectively and have it automated) having relevant links to similar content, the changes in traffic and pageviews from this afternoon has been mindboggling.

      Such a small little thing helping this much.

      I might just not migrate because of this afterall to much hassle to mess everything up.

      The site consists of roughly 132 indexed pages.
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