Moving My Html/php Website To Wordpress, How To Do It Without Losing My Rankings In Google?

I have a website that I would like to transfer from HTML to wordpress, in order to be able to write more often and more efficiently. However, most of my webpages on the site end with *.php, and if I move the page to wordpress, the pages will not end with *.php, and my rankings in google will probably suffer. Are there any way around this? I thought about moving my template to wordpress, then just add these pages that I already have (it is not that many) over to wordpress manually, with the *.php endings.

For your information, I only want to add wordpress to the sub-categories cricket picks and blog, the rest of the site could be HTML for all I care. Anyway to add the same wordpress install to two different sub-categories?

The site is http://www.onlinecricketbetting.net for reference.

 

You can change wordpress permalink to end with *.php. In wordpress permalink settings add this line into the custom structure.

/%postname%.php

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Redirect all your old URLs (PHP ones) to the new one that of WordPress platform using 301.

 

Is there any negative effect of having your posts ending with .php, that seems to be the best solution. Or should I do the redirects? If so, how do I do the 301 redirects, any good links?

 

I don't know, I should be ask you that question because you have already using it as your web extension.

But, in my opinion, I think it doesn't matter whatever extension we use. I've seen other extensions like .shtm, .asp and .cfm has a good position on the search engine, but it's up to you.

Here is Google's explanation about 301 redirects.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633

And here is the code to redirect a single page using .htaccess

Redirect 301 /old-page http://www.domain.com/new-page

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New-page url will be vary depending on your WP permalink structures

i.e.

Redirect 301 /post-title.php http://www.domain.com/pos-title

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Sitemaps

 

Thank you Masim man, I think I will just stay with the .php endings. Removed a lot of headaches for me now

 

As Masim said, page extensions have nothing to do with search engine rankings. You can stick to it if you can.