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What are some best practices for moving to a new CMS?

Mani from Delhi asks: "We are changing a fairly large HTML site to CMS. What are the essentials to keep in mind so that we do not loose our search rankings?" Recorded on April 23, 2009.  
 
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Exactly... 301 mapping of old URL's to the new ones. Every time we've made the switch the URL's have been much better for search. panacms
macdet2004 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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nice to be on the safe side :)
coopertv (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Same here... I'd think the URL structure would be at the top of the list, especially when you consider inbound links. Hmm...
Iodine74 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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I'm surprised there was no mention of making sure either:
1) URL structure isn't going to change
OR
2) 301s are in place to map old/static URLs to their new dynamicly driven URLS with the CMS

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