Moving old blog to WordPress - best way to do this?
1. I have an existing blog that's a few years old, built using Easy Blogs software. I want to move the entire blog (about 250-300 posts) to WordPress. The existing blog is badly optimised and consists of a home page that shows the four most recent posts, about nine category pages, and about 40 pages archived by month. These are all HTML pages. Individual posts do not exist as separate pages, so have not been indexed.
If I import all posts into a new WordPress blog, add relevant meta tags and immediately publish all posts, some going back to 2005, will Google frown on this, seeing it as a possible spam site with scraped content?
2. My current hosting set-up for the existing site and blog don't allow me to change .htaccess. So if I want to redirect the existing blog's home page plus archived material like category and month pages, I'll need to use HTML or javascript redirect. But I've read that this is also not good and could be penalized by the SEs. Any advice on this type of redirect? Any other suggestions or advice on what I'm trying to do would be most welcome.
Many thanks,
Scotch
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