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change website into wordpress theme

by musicblogtips
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so friends i have a website but website templete is not good and i created 15 pages like (mydomain.com/page.html). So i decided to changed website into wordpress but i dnt want to lose my search engine visitors so can i create exact same pages has in my website on wordpress and copy contents into my wordpress blog so my visitor from search dnt lose.
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  • Profile picture of the author SDStudio
    Originally Posted by musicblogtips View Post

    so friends i have a website but website templete is not good and i created 15 pages like (mydomain.com/page.html). So i decided to changed website into wordpress but i dnt want to lose my search engine visitors so can i create exact same pages has in my website on wordpress and copy contents into my wordpress blog so my visitor from search dnt lose.

    Hi musicblogtips,


    May i ask, what are you trying to accomplish? are you transferring from one site to another? do you need help with something?

    If you have any question, please do hesitate to post your question

    Cheers,
    ~Albert
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    The proper name of the job you need (and you should post it in the "Wanted..." section of this forum) is to create a WP theme based on your present site's design.

    Although, you are totally wrong thinking that you must keep the design in order to have the same content.
    You can take your present content (together with the keywords) and present it with a different design (layout, theme, graphics etc.) - that's the beauty of the template based CMS systems: the content and the presentation are separated.

    Save the plain text version of your content, install WP instead of the existing site, then make the content posts or Pages.
    However, if you have thousands of pages that might be difficult... you would need an automated script. But for just a few pages, the above described manual method should be OK.
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    Also, you'll want to preserve your links and search engine ranking, so you'll need to redirect all your existing pages to your new pages because the WordPress permalink structure will be different from your current link structure (which probably ends in .html).

    This article suggests some things to think about before moving your site to WordPress:

    Migrate an HTML Website to WordPress | WealthyDragon

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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    • Profile picture of the author jefftardif
      In Google Webmaster Tools, there is an option to send a new URLs for a website.

      And in Wordpress, you can customize the permalink to have the same structure as you had. But i'm not sure for the .html....
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  • Profile picture of the author phpwolf99
    How about having a new domain, install wordpress, write a script to transfer content from your old site to your wordpress site. If all/most of your contents in your old site are stored in a database, then it might be a lot easier to transfer your contents to wordpress site.

    Make sure you set new domain in webmastertool so that pagerank from your oldsite will be transferred to your new site.
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