SEO Tycoon

**AndaLE** · 01-15-2007, 12:50 PM

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?

**imported_oddcomments** · 01-15-2007, 01:35 PM

Anytime you migrate a site, unless you 301 redirect every single link to it's new location, you are initially going to lose rankings.

**JustinG** · 01-15-2007, 03:16 PM

True, I run a joomla health site and SEO is a biatch.

**handsome rob** · 01-15-2007, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JustinG

True, I run a joomla health site and SEO is a biatch.

SEO was a real pain in the *** for me when I was running Joomla. I wouldn't recommend it to a friend.

**KC TAN** · 01-16-2007, 05:36 AM

My advice is to stay at your current site layout

**casperl** · 01-16-2007, 10:17 AM

Yes. At least wait for 1.1 version of Joomla. As far as i heard from my joomla expert, they will integrate a new SEF core to the system. Currently it is too much unstable. Previous solutions do not work with big sites! And if you try to solve this, you will lose your motivation, money and/or time..

**kenpachi** · 01-24-2007, 05:23 AM

i also encourage you to stay with your current site. Unless you redirect it to your new joomla..For better seo cms, i suggest you use drupal.

**thecrystals** · 02-19-2007, 12:09 AM

does drupal show links as htm/html files? sorry bit late on the post

**slayerment** · 02-19-2007, 05:36 AM

Drupal allows you to use any URL you want for each page if that's what you're referring to. Meaning you can create a 'node' and make the url www.yoursite.com/my-html-page.htm even though it is dynamic

. I use Drupal for all my sites and it rocks.

**thecrystals** · 02-20-2007, 10:20 AM

yea drupal sounds pretty good then, theres a way of doing that in joomla but ive only seen it done in a few joomla sites, must b a decent extension that i havnt found yet. also the meta setting and title dont seem to like to be changed, had to go through the code to eventually force it to use my keywords! it must have taken them ages to make joom tho theres like thousands of files!! crazy

**mjesales** · 02-28-2007, 12:35 PM

I like joomla for CMS reasons - I haven't tried it for SEO stuff though - I'm probably going to try - i'm going to move my mjesales site to something other than front page...