Wordpress vs. home grown directory
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I just moved my blog from a wordpress hosted solution to my owner server and am really hopeful that all the SEO ready wordpress pages plus I downloaded Yoast SEO will move my site. I started with 9000 pages being moz indexed with tons of errors eyerywhere, I have almost fixed everything getting ready to do a google index. One question.
I have a directory of businesses and events for my local mountain community that is home grown with about 200 pages. see here: http://www.destinationbigbear.com/directory/bigbeardirectory.aspx which has a PA of 21 which is the same as my DA 21 (I know terrible)...
Should I migrate these 200 pages with images to wordpress to take advantage of all the nice SEO possibilities? I have staff and it would probably take about $600 bucks to do it. I would only have to put about ten 301's such as
http://www.destinationbigbear.com/directory/contentcat.aspx?ParentID=7 would be http://www.destinationbigbear.com/big-bear-restaurants/
Thank you again to all, I am hopeful I can answer some questions in the future for people... I am learning alot!
Nick
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Thanks for the response, I did have someone go through it all using copyscape and at that time 180 days ago it was pretty much clean, I guess I have to go back and cleanse it...
I will start moving the content, thank you....If I had to guess I would think wordpress cms will do much better than mine, but can provide a specific as to why you feel it will do better as far as site optimization... using Yoast I know will help but other than that?
Nick
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Without digging further into it, I need to ask - is that all original content? I copied the 1st sentence from the "Big Bear Marina" description and searched it at Google. That's not original at all.
So if none of the descriptions are custom written to be truly original, it's not necessarily "great" content. IF that's the case across most or all of your 200 listings, you may not have as much "opportunity" as you think.
If, however, it's mostly unique content, or you can convert it to mostly unique, high quality content, then by all means, transfer it over, and set up those 301 redirects.
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