Okay, so I have a site that is about 4 years old and it is all static HTML, all 4000 pages or so but I want to upgrade it to Joomla or something. The thing is it has so many backlinks and SE results that if I move/rename the pages then there will be a dead link and that wouldn't be good cause it gets around 15,000 organic hits/day from SE or related sites. I could do a redirect to a generic search page that will search the site I guess but the user would have to type what they were looking for again and they may annoyed with that. I want to build the site into a CMS I guess but I don't want to keep the content in a database....what the hell can I do? I imagine that a wrapper will be the only way, but if I wrap the plain html pages how can I get the users to go to the main index where the joomla installation is? Any ideas? or has anyone ever had to deal with this kind of nightmare? Also I'm moving servers and it has PR of 4-7 depending on the page..how can I be sure not to lose the rank after the move to the new name servers?
Well first of all download all you files into your PC. Then get a program that makes a search engine out of them(there are many that do that) Create your new site with Joomla,and have a link to the search engine of the old content.Thats it.
Thanks, I appreciate that you took time to post~ I have this part taken care of, I'm just trying to figure out some things about the landing pages. As about 5000 users plus land deep into the site. If they were hitting the index , that would for sure be the way to go.....well I'm sure I'll figure a way out of the mess. And thanks for your constructive input~