Advice for Large Pet Site

Hello!

I'm currently running the site www.justlabradors.com. I have been managing content using Joomla for quite some time but have decided the site needs to have a full overhaul. I have decided to go with Wordpress for CMS rather than Joomla.

My question is this: I have several hundreds of pages of content that are well-indexed at Google under the current CMS Mambo. If I redesign the site using Wordpress do you think it would change page ranking for the site?

I do not want to lose all of the content that is currently on the site - what would be the best way to overhaul the site without losing the content if I change CMS? Here is my plan let me know if you think there would be problems:

Keep Joomla for old articles/links. Start new directory using Wordpress i.e. www.justlabradors.com/wp and have a redirect from www.justlabradors.com to the new directory. Foresee any problems? Thanks so much for taking the time to read me post/help with questions.

Daniel Flora
webmaster@justlabradors.com
http://www.justlabradors.com

 

In my experience with Joomla and revamping the site to use something different, you are going to lose ranking somewhat with the SEs no matter what you do.

The best solution I found for me in doing this was just recreating the pages to match the originals as closely as possible. The more the original pages and new CMS pages matched, the less time I lost traffic, rankings, etc.