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Seeking Advice ...

by Jodie Thompson
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Hi Warriors ...

I have a client who is considering moving their Site Build It site with 200 pages or so over to the wordpress platform (possibly with Thesis).

I am looking for your advice on whether this is a good idea or not?

From what I can see, the site is getting traffic and has ranked for a few terms ... but if it was to change hosting and platforms, will it lose the indexing it has already received?

I really look forward to your thoughts and expertise in this area.

Cheers
jodie
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  • Profile picture of the author McBrett
    Have your programmer or tech guy 301 redirect your old pages to the new site.

    Usually this will preserve your search engine rankings. Also, sign up for Google Webmaster tools because you can let them know about your address change in there too.

    Pretty much any programmer or tech guy will know what a 301 redirect is at this point. I wouldn't recommend doing it yourself if like I said before you're not a super technical person.
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    Why are they thinking of making this move? SBI is a very search engine friendly platform, so unless there's a good reason to move (like adding an integral blog, for example) it would seem like a lot of work for not much benefit.

    However, if they insist on moving, then as long as they're keeping the same domain name, all you'll need to do is use the Redirection plugin in WordPress to handle the redirects.

    Pages that will have had an .html suffix in SBI will not have it in WordPress, so people trying to access your old (SBI) page URLs will get 404 errors.

    It will be quite a lot of Redirects to set up (within the Redirection plugin) but everything should flow through and you shouldn't lose links or ranking.

    If you're moving to a new domain then, of course, you will need to set those re-directs up on the current domain.

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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