Moving A Blog Over To Html Website.

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I've got a blog that has approximately 170 posts with many inbound links. If I were to move the blog to an html website would I encounter any problems? I host the blog on my own server so if I kept the same urls would it f#@k with my links? Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Killops
    Why would you want to do this? Why not just leave it as is.
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    • Profile picture of the author W.P. Allen
      I have many html sites and this was my first blog. I am having more trouble than I think it's worth trying to customize the blog getting it just how I want it (and I'm on my third theme). I could transfer the content to an html site in a day or two but I'm worried that there will be a problem with the links.
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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    Unless you originally set your blog's permalinks and pages to have an .html ending (Not likely), your new html site will have all different urls and therefore losing link love from inbound links.

    You can though set the old pages to forward/redirect to the new pages so at least you would lose or confuse you readers coming in from the link traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author teohcl
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    • Profile picture of the author W.P. Allen
      Unless you originally set your blog's permalinks and pages to have an .html ending (Not likely), your new html site will have all different urls and therefore losing link love from inbound links.

      You can though set the old pages to forward/redirect to the new pages so at least you would lose or confuse you readers coming in from the link traffic.
      Excellent point. Didn't consider that. Suppose I'll just keep tinkering with what I've got now.
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      • Profile picture of the author dadoc
        You should be able to solve that problem using Apache Mod rewrite but you would have to do it manually for every page and it would be a real pain in the butt...
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  • Profile picture of the author new2ebiz
    If your site is setup like mysite.com/blog just create your new html pages at mysite.com and leave the blog.

    On several of my sites I use the blog to drive traffic and get indexed faster, and the html pages for pages I'd rather remain static and product pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author W.P. Allen
      You should be able to solve that problem using Apache Mod rewrite but you would have to do it manually for every page and it would be a real pain in the butt...
      Would I do that through my hosting control panel?
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