So I'm going to be moving a site that is currently setup with .htm pages and the urls look something like this: "www.domain.com/stuff_more_stuff.htm" I want to move the site to wordress (install wordpress on my domain) without losing my backlinks and Pr. I've heard of 301 permanent redirects but how would I go about doing this. I have FTP access. Thanks!
You can set them up using an htaccess file. If you google "301 htaccess" you'll find instructions. You can setup a redirect for each page since the url's will change.
Thanks, all the pages names will be the same. However, in the url with wordpress they won't have the "_" it will be "-" and they wont end in ".htm" will the site wide option work? So new url with be: "www.domain.com/stuff-more-stuff" I hope I'm not being redundant, I just don't want to lose all that past work.
In case anyone who uses wordpress has the same question as me I recommend something much easier. I'm not redirecting to a new domain, only working withing the same site. Use this plugin: redirection It redirects and so much more.
