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Originally Posted by Martin Sparrow
What you can do with this is simple but it takes some time and effort.
Make an inventory list of his backlinks.
And if you already didn't recreated those pages/posts recreate them in the new WP with the same content.
Redirect the old backlinks to the new WP pages/posts you created.
If you need sample code or extra help just hit me up.  |
Thanks for the kindness Martin.
I really appreciate all of you fellas experience with this.. I don't think we are going to try to change the new site to match the old site in terms of exact content and such.. part of the reason he needed an update was because his old site sucked badly.. but it was old.. 14 years or so.. one of the reasons he is indexed so well for all of his relative terms.
He just had a single LINKS section on his site.. no blog posts on his old site, but quite a few pages.
At this point I'm really not concerned about his ranking, because of the age of the domain and his backlinks.. I think the new site will index well.
I'm more concerned of the most straight forward way to essentially "switch" the domains.
The old site/domain is on an old shitty hosting plan, and again it's not a wordpress site. The new site (wordpress) is on much better hosting with a better plan.
I'm an advertiser by nature.. so this is definitely not my field of expertise.
The site duplicator plugin sounds like a good idea.. but I really wanted to stay with the new host (the one the new wp site is on), and not revert back to his old host. (installing wp on his old host and using the site duplicator plugin).
So is there any possible way I can essentially "switch" out the domains?
Thanks again for the help regardless fellas. Truly.