HTML to Wordpress ???

[safetynut]

Can you tell me whether a website built in css and html can be converted to wordpress and keep the existing URLs maintain rankings, positions with the search engines as a result of the change. or is it a bad move to make.

Has anyone gone down this route with success?

thanks in advance.

 

[ITsoldUK]

1. Can you tell me whether a website built in css and html can be converted to wordpress and keep the existing URLs

2. What (good or bad) is the impact with rankings, positions and the search engines as a result of the change.

3. Has anyone gone down this route with success?

thanks in advance.

1. Yes it can quite easily
2. Depends on your current profile but handled correctly no harm will come from the change
3. Yes

Regards
Daren

 

[Faevilangel]

Done it numerous times and it's a relatively simple process, as all a WordPress site is, is a html site with WP tags added for the dynamic areas of the site.

When building a WP site, you would make the HTML first then add the relevant tags into the relevant areas.

It's a little different as the HTML needs to be split into different areas (header, page (main content), sidebar and a footer and then just use the relevant tags to call that file into the main template.

You can learn more about WP themes here

Keeping the same url can be done, as WP has a flexible URL system so it can be matched to an existing URL syntax

 

[safetynut]

Thanks for the comments so far.

Our website already has an integrated Wordpress Blog but we are considering converting the HTML side of the site to Wordpress but we would like to be confident that a change won't cause problems in the search engines.

Would like opinions on whether our site would be much trouble to convert to a completely new design and at the same time maintaining its performance going forward - here is the site

Thankyou.

 

[Faevilangel]

Moving your site to WP would be straight forward design wise, but content wise is going to be a long job to move all the content across, as each page will be created individually.

It would improve the functionality of the site as it would mean you don't need to edit every page to make amendments and adding new pages is simple as pie.

Personally I see it as a good project to move to the platform but is going to take a fair while to do the content.

 

[ecenica]

Can you tell me whether a website built in css and html can be converted to wordpress and keep the existing URLs maintain rankings, positions with the search engines as a result of the change. or is it a bad move to make.

To add to the great WordPress tips already...

If you're unable to perfectly match your current URL structure in WordPress you can easily redirect search engines to your new URLs using 301 redirects.

I can see you're already using All in One SEO in your blog, so you're probably familiar with sitemap.xml files. So again, if you' tweak things slightly, and use All in One SEO on your main site (or try the super WordPress SEO plugin) Google will be able to detect the changes from your new sitemap.

Merging your blog and main site should also boost SEO rankings.

Rich

 

[KellyDevise]

1. Yes it can quite easily
2. Depends on your current profile but handled correctly no harm will come from the change
3. Yes

Regards
Daren

I'm agree with you , but for people who don't know WordPress it's not such easy .

keep the existing URLs maintain rankings, positions with the search engines as a result of the change.

You can keep positions , but you must keep your old url addresses or you can manage redirect .