SEO aspects of changing site from html to WordPress

  • I am changing a website from html to WP. I gather that the Search Engines will have gathered their information, over the years, on each of the separate html pages in my site. Is their any way of retaining any of that SEO goodwill? Or, as I suspect, will it all be lost when we make the transition from one format to the other? Is the information retained about the website as a whole, or is it on a page by page URL basis that includes the page name and the .html extension too? Will calling a page the same name (apart from the file extension) be enough to retain any of the the Search Engine information? Anybody have any ideas?

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

  • You will want to look at one of the various 301 redirection plugins out there. They all work basically the same way and let you set up an old URL (from the HTML site) to be redirected to a new page on your WordPress site in a search-engine-friendly way.

    Thread Starter psilverwood

    (@psilverwood)

    Thank you catacaustic. They look to be just what I need.

    Thread Starter psilverwood

    (@psilverwood)

    I am a bit further down the road with this project now. The 301 redirection plugins don’t seem to be able to cope with redirection of the top level. What I have is example.com/index.html needing to be redirected to example.com/wordpress/index.php.
    I have seen one support which says the plugins won’t do this and it has to be done at the server. See…
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/top-level-domain-will-not-redirect?replies=3
    The problem is that I want to keep some html pages working at the root level as well as a blog on the wordpress level. This must not be unusual, right? But maybe what is unusual is to try to have the ‘home’ page at the wordpress level?
    Hope somebody can help. Thanks.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • The topic ‘SEO aspects of changing site from html to WordPress’ is closed to new replies.