Hey guys, Im currently using Joomla CMS for my news blog. I've been using it for years now and have become very familiar to it, but alot of the stuff is limited in Joomla. I have over 900 articles in the past year and the site has an alexa ranking of around 350,000. Im thinking of moving to Wordpress Blogging system. I have played around with it and it is much more suited to the blog and we can seriously have a better site design as well. BUT Im worried about changing the CMS system, as it may affect my rankings and no of visitors we recieve as well as all the backlinks in the search engines and search engine ranking and alot of other stuff. I just want to know what is the exact stuff that will change and how it will/should affect our site statistics and anything else. I think the wordpress system will be far more useful too us, but is it worth the change? The current site blog is PR5. Site is here I just want to know if it is worth changing, bear in mind that im wanting to set up a network of blogs, and wordpress would work well.
The CMS will change your ranking if it changes the names of the files on your site. So if you change CMS, make sure each old page keeps the old URL - or gets 301 redirected.
kh7 is exactly right. You can always change the cms, that doesn't matter, but just make sure that the page urls are either the same or redirect properly.
hhhmm its going to be hard. Im not to familiar with 301 redirects but i know the real basics. How would i do it like this Current url: http://www.mysite.com/pspnews/articletitle/ New url: http://www.mysite.com/dd/mm/yy/articletitle/ /dd/mm/yy/ is /day/month/year/ of the article Is this possible?
yeh but i want the wordpress structure like the New URL i have above. I dont know if this is possible.
It should be possible, but it does mean each URL looses the pagerank it already had - unless you 301 redirect. The new structure you propose has no obvious SEO benefits, so I would leave it at the old one, personally. I keep it at something like: url/subject/articletitle (on my regular site, don't really have a blog).
Here is the corresponding WP structures for both examples you have given above. Hope this helps. Current url: /%category%/%postname%/ New url: /%day%/%monthnum%/%year%/%postname%/
Hey i already know this thanks anyway I think your misunderstood. Im trying to 301 redirect urls from the first current url to New url. how would i put in the dates into a 301 redirect?