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

[Julian Prentice]

Here's an article
<https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83105?hl=en>on moving
your site from the Webmaster
Help Center <https://support.google.com/webmasters/?hl=en>. Might want to
check out Webmaster Tools <https://www.google.com/webmasters/> and some
basic SEO guidelines<http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf>
.

Hope that helps!


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Wesley Johnson <wjohnson at dcplibrary.org>wrote:

> One thing you'll want to do is always link related older blog entries in
> new posts. For instance, if you're writing up a yearly program, include the
> phrase "In last year's Program X..." and link it to the entry for the
> previous year's. Google sees this as a general link and not you linking
> back to your own site; this improves your importance ranking to the search
> engine. The value of doing this increases as your site's popularity
> increases.
>
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> Behalf Of Jorge Biquez
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:11 AM
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Going To Wordpress. What to do with the old version?
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> 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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