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I'm looking to change my html site to wordpress. What will happen to my deep baclinks and search engine rankings?
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  • Profile picture of the author D Baker
    That is a good question. I never did it myself so I am also interested in finding out more about this.
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  • Profile picture of the author funlink
    it will affect the quality of your site later
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  • Profile picture of the author Jordan Kovats
    It should not affect anything now...
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr.faizan
    Although there could be some temporary fluctuations in your ranking but later the google algorithm settles it. And further if you are running a content site then it will boost your seo because of wordpress plugins.. Html sites gets indexed quickly but google's most loved CMS is Wordpress..
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    You may need to set up some re-directs because if the link to your contact page on your HTML site is yoursite.com/contact.html, and on your WordPress site it's yoursite.com/contact/, this may cause some 404 errors.

    To help with this you can install the Redirection plugin and set those up as manual re-directs.

    Once your WordPress site is set up, check what happens when you type in the old URL. If it does return a 404 then activate Redirection (with those manual redirects set up).

    WRT your search engine ranking, depending on how well coded your HTML site is, it may improve your ranking - especially if you beef up the SEO of your WordPress site and use Categories and Tags effectively.

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jack Sprat
      Why change your existing static site to Wordpress? - why not just let those indexed pages sit there, and install Wordpress around them. Wordpress will happily sit beside a pre-existing static site. Then you don't need to worry about redirections, and you can just build all of your new pages with Wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author theconsultantseo
    dude if you are using the premium template. if you will edit so it will mess your w3c.

    thanks
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