Hello friends,
I have a corporate website. It is an HTML site that I customized myself, but it hasn’t reached the level I wanted; I guess I couldn’t properly do the ON PAGE SEO. Because of this, upon the recommendation of a few friends, I have decided to migrate this site to WORDPRESS, but I don’t have exact knowledge of what steps I should follow to minimize the drop in my site’s traffic. I would appreciate it if friends who have knowledge on this subject could help. Additionally, I kindly ask you to share your recommendations regarding plugins I can use in WordPress, systemic changes, and similar topics.
Thanks in advance for everything…
Hello,
If you redirect each of your pages with a 301, you will have permanently redirected your indexed pages to the pages in your new structure.
Since you intend to switch to WordPress, a 301 redirect should be done using the .htaccess file.
An entry like the following should be created in the .htaccess file for each page.
Redirect 301 /eski-sayfa1.html http://www.siteninadresi.com/yeni-sayfa1.php
Redirect 301 /eski-sayfa2.html http://www.siteninadresi.com/yeni-sayfa2.php
Redirect 301 /eski-sayfa3.html http://www.siteninadresi.com/yeni-sayfa3.php
Note: I don’t know why a full path like http://www.siteninadresi.com/ is provided for the same domain name, but this is how it was used in the examples.
Some notable plugins that can be used in WordPress (These are the ones I use)
Akismet
All In One SEO
Google XML Sitemap
and a few plugins you find most suitable for your theme. Don’t forget that too many plugins can also slow down your site. You can also use the GZippy plugin to compress your files.
If we can see the URL structure, maybe we can migrate to WordPress without any redirects. If you can provide your site address, I can help.