: Move a well-indexed website from one framework to another My company decided to get a new website, while retaining the same domain (e.g., mycompany.com). We are currently using Joomla (still

@Gretchen104

I guess a 301 redirect is certainly not an option since the whole site structure will be different.


But if you are coming from Joomla to WordPress, the site structure will be predictably different and thus 301 redirects are both feasible and desired. As you can see in this other question, it doesn't have to be all that complicated of a rule to accomplish the result.

That being said, you will still suffer a slight penalty from Google for changing your URLs. You can expect to lose 10-25% of referrals for a short period of time, typically a few weeks to a month, as Google reindexes your site and you may stand to gain or lose some traffic permanently as Google may recalculate your rankings during this process. Make sure you publish and register a sitemap for the WordPress site in GWT and that will minimize the penalty.

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