PR effected by new site

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Hey warriors,

If I build a new Wordpress site for a client whos current site is PR4, Classic ASP (Pre .Net) CMS site. I've checked majesticSEO and it has 87 External Backlinks, 44 Referring Domains, 18 Trust Flow and 20 Citation Flow.

Will it effect it's PR and is it worth getting a redirect script built if a build a fresh site?

Thanks in advance!
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  • I would look at Google Webmaster Tools and see which pages are being linked to. If it is the homepage, I wouldn't worry about it too much. I would also look at which pages are getting the most traffic. If they are not the homepage, I would consider forwarding that traffic to the homepage or the new corresponding page.
  • You should redirect the whole site. There's a few special scenarios where you don't need to, but they probably don't apply. If you get the backlinks redirected you should be able to keep the link juice for individual pages.

    Toolbar PR doesn't transfer to a new page, so the new sub pages will not have a PR score for a while. That's fine. Google is just slow to update the visible PR.
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    • Why would you build a new site? With something lame like WP, no less?

      What do I always say...Why are some people taking clients?

      Learn something about redirects....and real site building.

      Paul
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    The CMS is irrelevant for PR, what matters is the old internal/external pages (links) stay intact or you manually do 301 redirects to rank new pages (as a last option).
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    PR effected by new site

    Hey warriors, If I build a new Wordpress site for a client whos current site is PR4, Classic ASP (Pre .Net) CMS site. I've checked majesticSEO and it has 87 External Backlinks, 44 Referring Domains, 18 Trust Flow and 20 Citation Flow.