Move a well-indexed website from one framework to another

Move a well-indexed website from one framework to another - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the Move a well-indexed website from one framework to another error on your web browser. Problem :

My company decided to get a new website, while retaining the same domain (e.g., mycompany.com). We are currently using Joomla (still active), and the new website will be a self-hosted WordPress. Since mycompany.com is already well-indexed in Google Webmaster Tools & Analytics, I'm sure there will be a lot of problems if I just point the mycompany.com domain to a new site. I guess a 301 redirect is certainly not an option since the whole site structure will be different.

I can expect some problems, but at least I want to minimize the impact to site ranking & index, also to real visitors. Can anyone suggest the safest way to do this?

Solution :

I guess a 301 redirect is certainly not an option since the whole site structure will be different.

But if you are coming from Joomla to WordPress, the site structure will be predictably different and thus 301 redirects are both feasible and desired. As you can see in this other question, it doesn't have to be all that complicated of a rule to accomplish the result.

That being said, you will still suffer a slight penalty from Google for changing your URLs. You can expect to lose 10-25% of referrals for a short period of time, typically a few weeks to a month, as Google reindexes your site and you may stand to gain or lose some traffic permanently as Google may recalculate your rankings during this process. Make sure you publish and register a sitemap for the WordPress site in GWT and that will minimize the penalty.

We hope that this article has helped you resolve the google-analytics, redirects, wordpress error in your web browsers. Enjoy browsing the internet uninterrupted!