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Suprun Posts: 3 Joined: 1/30/2007 Status: offline	Joomla! and SEO - 1/30/2007 14:58:33 I'm considering migrating my current site (static web pages) into Joomla!. I rank pretty high in all 3 major search engines and do not want to lose these rankings, what do you suggest? Should I go for Joomla!? Should I redirect the highly ranked pages? I'm a bit worried but my site's growing and I need some kind of CMS. Any other option? <no links> < Message edited by Spooky -- 1/30/2007 15:29:05 >


jaybee Posts: 13959 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: Joomla! and SEO - 1/30/2007 17:27:00 I suggest you do two things before making any kind of a move in that direction. First, install joomla in a sub directory on your host. Set up robots text to block the SEs from getting at it. Add a few pages, no need to do anything about layout. Then switch on the SEO friendly URLs and see if they work. They don't always, it depends on your host. If they don't work then you end up with URLs that look like http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=38 which will kill any ranking you have stone dead. Second, if the URLs do work, go and join up in the Joomla forum and have a long talk with the experts on there. Joomla 1.5 is due out soon. It's supposedly radically different so if you do decide to go for it I'd wait until that's released. The changeover from the current version might be a bit of a pig. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to Suprun)