Going To Wordpress. What to do with the old version?

[Jorge Biquez]

Hello all.

I hope the following questions do not sound so stupid. I do not know 
what could be the best answer.

Finally we move to Wordpress. It is working fine we have some ideas 
to implement in the future and we are studying for doing our own 
plugins, following the advice on previous conversation here .

We would like to be indexed and listed on search engines of course 
with this new version. Our old version of website was good indexed 
and we received good traffic in it.

Asking a couple of expert companies in SEO they  gave us different 
advice but we are not sure what would be the best.

1) Leave old pages as they were and include a legend in each page 
telling there is a new version and redirect to new main page after 20 
seconds. That way, they say, indexers, bot robots and search engines 
will still find us.

2) Start from a fresh and clean structure. Deleting all the old web 
pages (they were static ones) . That way the index will be done only 
in new pages only. It will create lot of "not found" errors but that 
will be the best even when traffic will be almost zero at the beginning.

3) Leave old pages without redirection and only with a legend that 
there is a new version and that users should go to new page.

I am specially curious since it is a good exercise to learn more 
about how search engines will do with our new web pages. Yes, I know 
there are tons of new web pages added daily and that now it is more 
difficult to gain position on search engines that's why I decided to 
ask for you advice.

If You have done something simila. To move from static simple html 
web pages to a dynamic system like Wordpress or similar. What did you 
do with the old version?

Any other SEO tips to consider (free or not so expensive) to gain 
position in search engines with the new website. Of course assuming 
you have tags and all recommend stuff in the new site?

Thanks in advance for the time and comments.

Jorge Biquez

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