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

[Wilhelmina Randtke]

When I move to a new URL, then for each page I delete the page and I
put a 301 redirect in the .htaccess file from the old URL to the new
URL.  The 301 status is the only one that will keep all your old link
juice.

Your SEO "expert" is probably not an expert, because option 3 is a bad idea.

Option 1 is OK, if you are also giving a 301 status.
Option 2 looses all your old traffic, and you are basically starting
from just your domain name and whatever reputation that domain has.
Option 3 hurts you in search engine rankings.  You can read about
"repetitive content penalty" to see this.  So, whoever recommended you
option number 3 is someone you should not do business with or rely on
for advice.

-Wilhelmina Randtke

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Jorge Biquez <jbiquez at icsmx.com> wrote:
> 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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