Html Pages to New CMS

[DomainOgre]

I have an older site with HTML pages that rank reasonably well in SEs. These pages have no includes or anything so they are hard to update. Thus, I am thinking about moving the HTML pages to a new CMS that will be PHP but will use MOD Rewrite to keep the exact same URLs.

Would moving to the new PHP powered CMS hurt my ranking in SEs if I keep the same content and URLs as the HTML pages? Just wondering before doing this because it is a major step for my site.

 

[enlytend]

May or may not - depends on how close the CMS sticks to the current page code - titles, descriptions, markup (use of various html elements like header tags, etc.)... If the on-page elements are not the same it could affect your rankings.

 

[DomainOgre]

May or may not - depends on how close the CMS sticks to the current page code - titles, descriptions, markup (use of various html elements like header tags, etc.)... If the on-page elements are not the same it could affect your rankings.

If the new CMS sticks to the current page code then my rankings should be fine?

 

[enlytend]

Should be. Googlebot only care about the page code and content itself, they don't care how you produce it (static pages, php, .net ...). An h1 tag is an h1 tag and you said you're keeping the same URL's, so what would they see that's different?

 

[Makis.TV]

i had a drop in traffic from google of 40%
and i m still trying to get back there after one month

 

[DomainOgre]

Should be. Googlebot only care about the page code and content itself, they don't care how you produce it (static pages, php, .net ...). An h1 tag is an h1 tag and you said you're keeping the same URL's, so what would they see that's different?

Ok, thanks. That really does help, enlytend.

What do you mean, on!SPOT? What did you do?

 

[Makis.TV]

i ve changed from pure css/html/php to Joomla
most of the backlinks were pointed to mypage/ and mypage/index.php
even though joomla website still has the same landing pages i ve lost tons of search engine traffic from google

i believe this happens sometimes and we have to wait 1-2 months before everything goes back to normal

ps: my website was 4 pages long and know is a lot more...

 

[enlytend]

But in Joomla you aren't necessarily going to have the exact same markup. Does it use header tags (and other page elements) the same way? Or is Joomla using plain div or p tags instead? Are the page titles and descriptions the same as they were? Any difference in the navigation and/or interlinking between pages? Has the site structure changed? Page load time? Any extraneous Joomla code in your source (as compared to the original pages)?

Any time page source markup or site structure changes, expect any ranking power based upon on-site factors to change with it - for better or for worse.