Moving My Html/php Website To Wordpress, How To Do It Without Losing My Rankings In Google?

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    I have a website that I would like to transfer from HTML to wordpress, in order to be able to write more often and more efficiently. However, most of my webpages on the site end with *.php, and if I move the page to wordpress, the pages will not end with *.php, and my rankings in google will probably suffer. Are there any way around this? I thought about moving my template to wordpress, then just add these pages that I already have (it is not that many) over to wordpress manually, with the *.php endings.

    For your information, I only want to add wordpress to the sub-categories cricket picks and blog, the rest of the site could be HTML for all I care. Anyway to add the same wordpress install to two different sub-categories?

    The site is http://www.onlinecricketbetting.net for reference.
     
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  2. Masim man

    Masim man Active Member

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    You can change wordpress permalink to end with *.php. In wordpress permalink settings add this line into the custom structure.

    /%postname%.php
    Code (markup):
     
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  3. DaffodilSW

    DaffodilSW Greenhorn

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    Redirect all your old URLs (PHP ones) to the new one that of WordPress platform using 301.
     
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  4. Melloweitsj

    Melloweitsj Well-Known Member

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    Is there any negative effect of having your posts ending with .php, that seems to be the best solution. Or should I do the redirects? If so, how do I do the 301 redirects, any good links?
     
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  5. Masim man

    Masim man Active Member

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    I don't know, I should be ask you that question because you have already using it as your web extension. :)

    But, in my opinion, I think it doesn't matter whatever extension we use. I've seen other extensions like .shtm, .asp and .cfm has a good position on the search engine, but it's up to you.

    Here is Google's explanation about 301 redirects.

    http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633

    And here is the code to redirect a single page using .htaccess

    Redirect 301 /old-page http://www.domain.com/new-page
    Code (markup):
    New-page url will be vary depending on your WP permalink structures

    i.e.

    Redirect 301 /post-title.php http://www.domain.com/pos-title
    Code (markup):
     
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    Sitemaps
     
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  7. Melloweitsj

    Melloweitsj Well-Known Member

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    Thank you Masim man, I think I will just stay with the .php endings. Removed a lot of headaches for me now :)
     
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  8. DaffodilSW

    DaffodilSW Greenhorn

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    As Masim said, page extensions have nothing to do with search engine rankings. You can stick to it if you can.
     
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