Replacing static site with wordpress – SEO

  • Resolved JC001

    (@jc001)


    14 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve recently replaced a static site built in dreamweaver with a wordpress site and put it in a folder:
    https://www.mothersgarden.org/blog

    Some of the old pages are indexed in google and have PR and inbound links – I understand for these I can set up 301 redirects in the .htaccess file to redirect visditors and googlebots and pass on ‘link juice’ to the new pages.

    So I have two questions:

    1. How about the root https://www.mothersgarden.org? I can’t redirect it to itself so will google react badly when it comes back to find a very highly ranked page has dramatically changed?

    2. I know how to move wordpress out of the folder to the root (thanks to good threads in this forum), but what do I do with the old pages? Just delete everything else in the root directory? The site has a bit of flash before taking you to the index page, I want to kill this to but do I just delete it? I’m not even sure how that works?

    Any guidance much appreciated…

    J

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  • Thread Starter JC001

    (@jc001)

    In case anyone is interestd I used 301 redirects to divert search enginess, users and Page Rank to relevant pages.

    1. Search for yourolddomain.com in google and identify pages with high Pr, importance or traffic.

    2. Use cpanel or .htaccess to redirect to relevenat pages on https://www.newdomain.com

    Ps the root domain Page rank seems unaffected by the move into wordpress CMS and I backed-up then deleted all the old dreamweaver pages from the root folder.

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