how till html website convert to wordpress cms affect rankings if at all?

mikeyyy996 · Feb 12, 2014

i have an old html site that is becoming more and more difficult to use. everytime i have to make a change its via code and a real pain in the A. id like to convert to wordpress but am wondering how it can possible affect our rankings. the company is a small mom and pop biz and ranked #1 for a few keywords in a relatively competitive market.

please let me know your thoughts

also, would changing hosts affect rankings also?

grim111 · Feb 14, 2014

Do not do that, specially when you ranking first.
HTML is the best environment for crawling and ranking. All .php files can contain viruses so Google trust more to plain HTML sites.
WP have too many innerlinks that looses your weight in between those useless pages.
Never the less if you will decide to do so, better get similar domain fix WP there and make 301 redirect to new site, later if its still ranking the same you may transfer it completely.
But the golden rule is if you ranking first don't do anything.
Never the less WP can also be pain on the asss, I personally operate 50 sites on plain HTML and all attempts to change to WP doesn't went well.

mikeyyy996 · Feb 14, 2014

i am not changing the domain name. only converting existing site to a wordpress.

grim111 said:
Do not do that, specially when you ranking first.
HTML is the best environment for crawling and ranking. All .php files can contain viruses so Google trust more to plain HTML sites.
WP have too many innerlinks that looses your weight in between those useless pages.
Never the less if you will decide to do so, better get similar domain fix WP there and make 301 redirect to new site, later if its still ranking the same you may transfer it completely.
But the golden rule is if you ranking first don't do anything.
Never the less WP can also be pain on the asss, I personally operate 50 sites on plain HTML and all attempts to change to WP doesn't went well.

luisk · Feb 14, 2014

It's just an idea, and I'm not an expert. I don't know if is it possible to ''convert'' the HTML file to WordPress but you can choose a blank template and work with frames inside that template. But you must remember to configure the SEO part of your template(if you are using one with that option) with the same data you have before in your HTML. I apologize if I'm saying nonsense with the little I known, I wanted to help.

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