By mattgaunt on

Hey everyone,

I'm getting there with drupal - enjoying alot so far, but one of the things that is puzzling me / a slight concern is this.

My old blog was organised using word press with clean URL's (Well it may the blog title the url) and one or 2 sites have links to some of my articles and Google ranks some of my articles quite highly.

Now my site isn't very popular but it does seem a shame to just lose all of this set up and also any traffic I might get from other sites will obviously result in a 404 error. So do people think I should just cut my loses and regain the google SEO for my articles by copying them across to my new drupal blog and just forget the odd pages that link to my old site, or do I set up redirects to the new material, my main concern with this is that I then have to maintain that ensuring nothing goes wrong (Which word press has done to me before)?

I have very limited knowledge of SEO, I understand how Google's page ranking works, but I don't know how adding tags etc can add to the ranking so I just wondered what other people would do in this situation.

Cheers for any help (Sorry for all the questions)

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matkeane’s picture

matkeane commented

Hi,

If you search for 'wordpress drupal migration' you might find some tools to automate the process of importing articles from your old site.

Once you have the articles on your Drupal site, you could use the Pathauto module - http://drupal.org/project/pathauto - to make clean URLs, which you could configure to match the URLs from your old site.

If you have some old URLs that you want to redirect to a new, different, URL on the Drupal site, the Global Redirect module - http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect - will let you point the old pages to the new pages with a server redirect code.

Using those two modules, you should be able to migrate the site without search engines noticing the difference.

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mattgaunt commented

Ha ha thats awesome,

Cheers matkeane, Drupal so far has the answer to everything :-)

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Jeff Burnz commented

You might want to check out his one also - http://drupal.org/project/path_redirect

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mattgaunt commented

I've just had a thought which I completely forgot to mention. My wordpress blog, while on the same server as my root site, I put on a sub-domain, will drupal will be able to handle that or is that going to mess things up or does my server need configuring to handle this?

Sorry for forgetting this in the first post