Ok - So I have found numerous sites which go through the ease in which static html sites can be converted over to a wordpress site. But this doesnt work quite as it seems. My only option (which is not really a big deal - just an hour or two of cutting and pasting into wordpress posts) is to transfer the content over to wordpress. So I am worried about now having duplicate content. My site does not receive a large amount of traffic as it is, so I am not worried about losing links or any of that. Just dont want to look like spam. By converting now it will save me hours and hours of programming time in the future. When I started the site a few months back as a source of information I knew nothing about wordpress. I started the site in dreamweaver because I had used html in years before. Wordpress is just so damn easy it makes no sense not to convert (for my purpose) Please help demystify this for me
What you should do in your case is install Wordpress in the root folder and then recreate the site folder names to match your existing site. For example, your current html site looks like this: http://www.yourdomain.com/article_one.html When you create your Wordpress posts, just give the post a title "article one" so that the location in the url remains the same. You would have to set up your permalinks first to %postname% to achieve this effect. There's no need to worry about duplicate content as it's your own site you're dealing with.