301 Redirect

[Shop-Sq]

Hi have an older word press site that ranks very well, and I have built a newer Magento site to replace it. I was originally planning on maintaining both of them.. But Im thinking I would like to shut down the older word press site completely. Is it possible to 301 the whole site at once to the new Magento site? And if so what is the quickest, easiest way to do it?

The URL and category structure do not match in anyway..

thanks!

[CandymanKen]

Hi-

Not sure how much content vs ecommerce you have on your Wordpress site but my 2 suggestions would be as follows:

1. For your Wordpress content get yourself the Fishpig wordpress-magento integration plugin. This will allow you to put your blog inside your Magento store and still have the old layout for content.

2. For redirecting the products you might look at Magentos built in redirect options. You can find it under Catalog --> URL Rewrite Management.  I believe I have even seen an extension that will let you mass upload those, but not sure about that.

Good Luck

Ken

[David-Kley]

You could redirect the whole site, but I wouldn't.

If your exiting site ranks well, you should forward those pages to the proper pages on your Magento site. By doing the whole site as a redirect to the other, you will most likely lose rank and authority by doing so.

Are the sites on two different domains?

[Shop-Sq]

Hi guys thanks for the replies.

Its kind of a weird situation because although both sites are for the same company and product they serve / served different purposes.

The word press site basically just presented some content and gave a broad stroke over view of what we do. The Magento site is set up to actually present the content, allow users to log in and download premium content... As a downloadable product.

The word press site never went as deep into it and did not have individual product pages or user log ins and downloads. The sites are laid out in 2 entirely different ways, so its not so easy to just match product pages to product pages and category pages to category pages. They have 2 totally different ways of presenting content.

The sites are 2 different domains.

The word press site did have a blog filled with very mediocre content that I have no desire to bring to the new site. Im fine with it completely disappearing..

All of the above is what lead me to believe the best approach might be just to snag whatever juice possible out of the old site.

thanks for any further replies.