I was thinking about redesigning an all HTML site with multiple pages to a Wordpress blog. I have updates on my site that I would convert to posts (would google look at this as duplicate content since they have already indexed my original site) and pictures put into galleries. I will use all the SEO plugins to maximize my SEO. How will google or other search engines react to such a huge change in website structure? Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks for any help.
I think if the structure of the urls remain the same, then google shouldn't have a problem with it. IE.: http://domain.com/article remains the same before and after, then it shouldn't be a problem. If you have the posts duplicated throughout the site then that might cause a problem though. Not too sure. But you can configure how your urls are displayed in wordpress to match your current design.
I did this on a personal site a few years back - what I did was install wordpress into a new subdirectory of the site. Then appropriate pages from the existing static site were created in WP and old urls 301 redirected to the new urls. The homepage didn't change, I just wrote some custom php to pull posts in the 'homepage' category out of the WP database, as we had to some other stuff on the homepage and it was going to be a pain to do a custom template just for the homepage in WP.
Google will consider it duplicated content. Once you have the WP running with content, you will have to delete the old site and make sure to use a 303 technique of redirection.
no copy content will be considered if u delete the old content also u can submit a sitemap to google webmasters but I recommend you to not do it before the PR update otherwise you will lose ur PR
Thanks for the advice...I think I will put it into a sub directory for now and make sure I delete all the old content and do it over one weekend. The new Wordpress theme will be much more SEO but I didn't want to get slapped with duplicate content.