?Changing from HTML to Wordpress?

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Hello All, and thank your for your help in advance.

OK I have a site that I created in HTML and it has a Page rank of 3 and all the inner pages are Page rank 2. The site has around 15 pages.

My question is: Will it affect my PR if I change the site to a Wordpress Site?

Thanks again.
#website design #changing #html #wordpress
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  • You can import all the pages to WordPress and keep the URLs the same.

    If you do that It should not have any effect.
  • And if you cant keep the exact same URLs, redirecting the old pages should help. There's plugins that can do it for you.
  • I had a 60 page automotive site that I updated with a brand new wordpress and I just left the original site in place and built the wordpress site over the top. Then I had all the home links point to the new website. The old pages still rank (3 years later) and the new pages rank as well. Your old site has .html pages and your new blog will be php. Consider keeping the old pages exactly where they are and build a new site over the top. That's what I did and though controversial it worked ok for me. .
  • Don't forget Chris that your pages are currently .html and wordpress doesn't use html extensions so just keeping the first part of the file name won't actually keep your URLs the same. Leave your original site in place - build over the top. If you're worried about duplicate content - don't be. Mat Cutts (Google) himself said duplicate content won't hurt you unless it's spammy.

    Edited for correction as pointed out by Istvan.
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    • Sorry, but that's simply not true.
      I mean the second part of those sentences that WP creates .php pages. No, it doesn't! Pages or posts and every content in WP is stored in the database as an entry and even when displaying it in a browser it creates URLs like
      example.com/post-title/
      example.com/page-title/

      Nothing PHP there! It's true, the WP engine is all PHP files and the theme system is built with PHP files, but WP never creates any physical file with .php extension. (It doesn't create any file for that matter)

      And without the "nice" permalinks everybody would have post URLs like
      example.com/?p=623 or example.com/?page_id=345 - where the numbers refer to the ID number of that entry in the database.
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  • Oops, yes you're right. I edited my post - thanks. My point was that the html pages would remain in place unaffected.
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  • Bill,

    While I agree with what you linked to: Cutt's statement about duplicate content... I think keeping both versions of the same content is obsolete.

    If one really wants a redirect, should think it this way:
    - the old (html) site most likely has some kind of logic (a.k.a. structure) how the webpages were created and organized;
    - create the new entries with WordPress and set up an .htaccess file with the redirect rules to channel all the traffic going to the old URLs to the new URLs
    - delete the old files
  • The only problem I have with that is that those pages ranked for all sorts of reasons from keyword density to meta tags and their order in the head. I decided it was too much to replicate everything exactly so I just left my old pages there and that did the trick. They remained on rank while the new site caught up. Now they both share the page.
  • Hello mvt82969!
    I also change my html website to wordpress. If you change your page Url,s that will effected you page rank if you not change your page url there will be no effect in page ranking.
  • It's not as complicated as the guys here make it sound. Google some basic instructions, and start your text editor.

    Leaving the old pages is quite bad idea in my opinion. You'd have content that doesn't get the changes that you've made to the site. If anyone gets to your site from the search, it seems weird and inconsistent. Of course you can keep the old .html while moving them to the CMS one by one.
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