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replace existing iweb page by wordpress - existing SEO google ranking?

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wenv
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Hi all,

at this moment I have an iweb-page wich is very succesfull in the SEO google ranking.

Now I've developped an whole new Wordpress-site (of course!!;-)) and want to set this one live on my domain, but... I'm afraid I will lose this beautifull google ranking?

A) What if I delete my iWeb-site totally and replace it with my brand new wordpress-site?
- When people (in the first weeks) search on the same keywords and see the links of my iweb-page in google
=> will they get a 404-error message that the page does not exists anymore?

B) Is there a way to "redirect" the iweb-page to my new site? So I won't have any problems at all?

C) Other solutions for this?

Thanks in advance!!
Vanwero

Posted 1 year ago #
Chris Beard

Hey,

I'm not a SEO expert, though I believe when you keep the same page structure and the same use of headings etc. not much will change. For example if you have a page called mysite.com/contact/ on your "old" site you should have no problem creating a contact page in your new WordPress installation which will now become mysite.com/contact/.
Redirecting doesn't seem a good option since it'll just start indexing the page you're linking to .. which is a null operation.
I believe google indexes your site for keywords and url - meaning that if you're keeping the same structure not much will happen - if anything your ranking will improve for your wished keywords, since the theme is optimised.

Posted 1 year ago #