New Site - 301 the old one to preserve SEO?

Marketing
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Hello,

I’m stuck with a design issue and need some direction…

We are designing a new website for our business using WordPress. My old site is a bespoke design from a web design company.

What is the best way to be able to still use the little amount of SEO we have performed on the old site, and transfer it to the new site? The current site has about 50 or so web pages. Should I take each page and 301 it to the new web site?

I planned on using the same domain name (which is keyword rich for our market), but the more I think about it, the more I am realising my limited understanding of how this works.

What is the best way to handle this? :confused:

Thanks for the input!

-Dave

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doing the 301 from the .htaccess globally probably a easier solution.

or see if you can recreate the same page urls you had on the old site. in that case you wont have to redirect.

also for the new website pages try to have the page title, meta, and other seo related stuffs carry over; that might help.