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PR effected by new site

by Badger
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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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  • Profile picture of the author a2hosting
    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    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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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      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.

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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        Why would you build a new site? With something lame like WP, no less?
        By my definition CMS is a glorified pile of content editing forms. It's about as uninteresting and mundane as computer program can get. I don't get what you're expecting from your CMS if WP is something that especially needs to be labeled "lame".

        I don't get it either, but redirections seem to be harder than you or I might think. The biggest city in the country has done at least two site rebuilds with no 301s at all. Maybe their enterprise consultants didn't get paid enough.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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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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