Having the same url's from old to new site help?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by mikehende, Feb 5, 2016.

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    Hey guys, I have put my new theme on a subdomain here to work on it:
    http://newwordpresstheme.pcandnetservices.com/

    When it's done I will move it to my main domain here replacing the old theme:

    http://www.pcandnetservices.com/

    I have had some backlinking done on my old theme so I have been told that it's key that I maintain the same old url's from the old theme but what does that mean exactly? As an example, taking the ABOUT page url from the old theme which is
    http://www.pcandnetservices.com/about-us-html/

    Since the new theme's url for that page is http://newwordpresstheme.pcandnetservices.com/about/

    Should I change that url in the WP dashboard to now reflect what's below from the old theme?

    http://www.pcandnetservices.com/about-us-html/
     
    mikehende, Feb 5, 2016 IP