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Converting a site to wordpress

by Ducksauce
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If I own a site made in Serif Webplus X4 and wanted to sell it, I presume it would have a much bigger audience of buyers if it was in a WordPress format.
Any opinions?

If I physicly changed it over to a similar looking WordPress format with the same content and link structure, would I keep the same SERPS or would Google have a vomit at me?

Any opinions?
#converting #site #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Ducksauce
    Has anyone ever converted a site over to WP to sell it?
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    Some of the ready made site buying audience probably don't know the difference.

    Doesn't sound like good investment of your time, might hurt your search ranking in the short term, working on raising traffic and ranking is probably the bet place to focus.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Ning Lo
    Yeah this might hurt your SEO if you mess up...

    I suggest investing the time you would take to convert into more important projects.

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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    Converting a site to WordPress is a lot of work, as the others have said.

    The most important thing is to make sure that each of the pages on your old site redirects properly to each of the pages on the WordPress site. The URLs will be different because of WordPress' permalink structure, so each page will need to be given a permanent (301) redirect.

    Some other thoughts on migrating to WordPress here:

    Migrate an HTML Website to WordPress | WealthyDragon

    Cheers,

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    • Profile picture of the author Brian Terry
      If I'm buying a website that's making money I wouldn't care about the platform it's published with.

      I'm buying the money making website not WordPress.

      As long as I can edit the pages if needed and I'm not tied into something that locks me out of the site at any time I don't really care.

      It sounds like you're over complicating things.

      Is your site getting a lot of quality traffic if it's not making much money?

      If your site is about the traffic then that's what you're selling, not the platform.

      As long as I can edit the site, making money and or generating targeted traffic then I don't believe the platform is important to get you the sale.

      If your site isn't making money and isn't getting much traffic you'll likely find more interested buyers if it is on the WordPress platform.

      In my opinion Money and traffic are always more important than the platform a website is published on.

      That's my take on it.
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