Comments on: Dangers of changing Content Management Systems http://www.phuba.com/2006/01/24/dangers-of-changing-content-management-systems/ Internet strategies, website design, search engine optimisation and e-commerce. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:50:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: » No, seriously, changing CMS will kill your page rank » Blog Archive » Phuba.com - Internet Strategy http://www.phuba.com/2006/01/24/dangers-of-changing-content-management-systems/#comment-27 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:40:23 +0000 http://www.phuba.com/2006/01/24/dangers-of-changing-content-management-systems/#comment-27 [...] In my Dangers of changing Content Management Systems article I wrote that changing CMS (Content Management System) could cause your page rank (which influences how high you appear in Search Engine Results Pages) to plummet.? Thankfully, there is a way you can minimize the risk, you can use Apache’s mod_rewrite so that all your urls don’t change at once. – thanks to Patricia for pointing that out.? Patricia – where were you before I changed CMS?? Little did I know how badly changing CMS effects your Page Rank – Google still has me listed, but poorly, but MSN and Yahoo have dropped phuba.com from their lists entirely!! ? [...] […] In my Dangers of changing Content Management Systems article I wrote that changing CMS (Content Management System) could cause your page rank (which influences how high you appear in Search Engine Results Pages) to plummet.? Thankfully, there is a way you can minimize the risk, you can use Apache’s mod_rewrite so that all your urls don’t change at once. – thanks to Patricia for pointing that out.? Patricia – where were you before I changed CMS?? Little did I know how badly changing CMS effects your Page Rank – Google still has me listed, but poorly, but MSN and Yahoo have dropped phuba.com from their lists entirely!! ? […]

]]> by: bevan.clark http://www.phuba.com/2006/01/24/dangers-of-changing-content-management-systems/#comment-24 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:29:22 +0000 http://www.phuba.com/2006/01/24/dangers-of-changing-content-management-systems/#comment-24 If you use mod_rewrite to keep the content at the same urls then you should be fine. I say should be rather than definately as there is a small chance that if the new html that you use is very different from the old google may penalise you because the whole site has changed to rapidly. Going from one CSS layout to another CSS layout (as opposed to tables) obviously would minimise the risk (as google can more easily disginuish the layouot code from the content then) If you use mod_rewrite to keep the content at the same urls then you should be fine. I say should be rather than definately as there is a small chance that if the new html that you use is very different from the old google may penalise you because the whole site has changed to rapidly. Going from one CSS layout to another CSS layout (as opposed to tables) obviously would minimise the risk (as google can more easily disginuish the layouot code from the content then)

]]> by: Patricia http://www.phuba.com/2006/01/24/dangers-of-changing-content-management-systems/#comment-23 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:42:48 +0000 http://www.phuba.com/2006/01/24/dangers-of-changing-content-management-systems/#comment-23 Hi, Very interesting article. I have a question though: please tell me I'm right :) If I use mod_rewrite to get all the urls to be the same on the new cms as on the old one, it will be seamless, right? I'll soon start a new website as well as doing some for clients, so this all is good information. Cheers Hi,

Very interesting article. I have a question though: please tell me I’m right :) If I use mod_rewrite to get all the urls to be the same on the new cms as on the old one, it will be seamless, right?

I’ll soon start a new website as well as doing some for clients, so this all is good information.

Cheers

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