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1. JC001
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've recently replaced a static site built in dreamweaver with a wordpress site and put it in a folder:
   http://www.mothersgarden.org/blog

   Some of the old pages are indexed in google and have PR and inbound links - I understand for these I can set up 301 redirects in the .htaccess file to redirect visditors and googlebots and pass on 'link juice' to the new pages.

   So I have two questions:

   1. How about the root http://www.mothersgarden.org? I can't redirect it to itself so will google react badly when it comes back to find a very highly ranked page has dramatically changed?

   2. I know how to move wordpress out of the folder to the root (thanks to good threads in this forum), but what do I do with the old pages? Just delete everything else in the root directory? The site has a bit of flash before taking you to the index page, I want to kill this to but do I just delete it? I'm not even sure how that works?

   Any guidance much appreciated...

   J

2. JC001
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   In case anyone is interestd I used 301 redirects to divert search enginess, users and Page Rank to relevant pages.

   1. Search for yourolddomain.com in google and identify pages with high Pr, importance or traffic.

   2. Use cpanel or .htaccess to redirect to relevenat pages on http://www.newdomain.com

   Ps the root domain Page rank seems unaffected by the move into wordpress CMS and I backed-up then deleted all the old dreamweaver pages from the root folder.

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