Migration from a common website to wordpress site

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Hello Warriors,

I have a regular website that is working just fine, it is like a catalog of several categories, I designed using Dreamweaver, it is just a HTML/CSS site.

If I redesign the entire website in Wordpress, would this affect my traffic?
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  • Short answer yes.

    You'd need to properly 301 redirect every url and even then there would be a little shakeup in your rankings. The content of your pages changes. Each wp page will have different html in it that your existing pages and may positively or negatively or not at all affect your rankings both in short term and long term.

    How many pages do you have? What is the reason for the redesign. If it's just because you heard search engines love wordpress, forget it.
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    • Thanks for your response.

      It is a 18 pages site. I have in mind to redesign it using Wordpress MU, so I would be able to tweak the categories on it and keep a similar structure.
    • I actually am in the process of the opposite. I'm moving several sites away from wordpress to straight HTML (using Dreamweaver). I'm tired of having to fight Wordpress in order to add features I want. I'll continue to use Wordpress for blogging and strict content.

      However yes either way its going to cause a little dance for you. I expect it but if theres no compelling reason to move ot Wordpress everything you cna optimize in wordpres you can do in a straight html based page and its faster too (which is also a SEO factor)
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