Moving my website to Wordpress, what are the possible consequences?
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I am moving my website to WordPress after years. I am curious to know what the best route to maintain as much SEO value as possible would be. We have a lot of 301 redirects currently, and we will maintain those, but what else should we do or know?
Thanks for any help.
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Having set up those 301 redirects is the most important thing.
Make sure each of the page of the Wordpress site redirect to a corrosponding page of the new website.
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@hwade It all depends on the amounts of pages and redirects you actually have. I would start checking your search console account and of course, check Screaming Frog (By the way is funny that SF is still useful these days)
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