Html V magento
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Please excuse what seem like a naive question we are In process of updating our site from old fashioned html pages to magento store. Our html page ranks well and I don't want to upset the spiders when they find something different. We are keeping all the same content images etc. Is there any reason the magento page should not do as well as the existing html. URL is staying the same. We are think of replacing a few pages at a time rather than replacing everything on one go. Is that necessary?
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Hi Tim,
I think you should do the migration all at once.
Make sure you 301 every page or at least the most important ones.
This video might help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lVPrYoBkA
Magento is great platform, but if not well implement it became very slow. If you 301 your old pages for a much slower page or a page with very different content you might have problems. As long you make sure you content is aligned and your mageto site is fast you'll be fine.
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Hi Tim,
When you move over google will pick up that you are using a new CMS for your website because the coding and structure will all be different. Aslong as you are going to have the same SEO and structure (url's) done google should recognize it, but to guarantee that you will still have the same ranking after google crawled on your "new site" is not possible.
So I would recommend you stay up too date with your SEO optimisation, and keep a keen eye on on ranking as you switch over.
You should rather replace the whole site at once so that you will have a quality site, and when it comes to optimising its all done on the same CMS which will make your life a lot easier and less confusing.
Hope this help and feel free to ask if something didn't make sense or if you would like to know more.
Regards,
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Hey Tim,
I agree with your strategy.
There should be little reason why the same content would change in ranking. If the text, the internal linking, the # of pages are the same, the url's... the spiders shouldn't be bothered much.
I also think changing a few pages at a time is the strategic thing to do.
--Andrew
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