: What SEO problems could I run into when changing CMS? I have a website on one CMS and I wish to switch to another CMS. What are some problems SEO-wise that I could run into? I am aware

@Angela700

Having migrated a few CMS's before, the URLs are the biggest hurdles.

Some other pain points are:


Ensuring content mapping and content layout (in the HTML) isn't radically different - normally achieved by ensuring the templates are the same.
Ensuring that meta data is correctly transferred - page titles, meta descriptions and other meta data - this may also include time-stamps for articles.
Ensuring categorisation and tags are mapped
Ensuring internal links remain in place across templates

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@Debbie626

It depends on how well the site is linked. If you have links going to abc.com/def.hml and the new is abc.com/xyz.html then you miss the link juice. You can do redirects but that may slow the site down. A few redirects are ok but hundreds or thousands are not. It will hurt site speed.
I hope this helps. If we had more info it would be better.

As you can see the choice of a CMS is very important.

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