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Hi friends,

I have a website which is ranking top on most of the keywords and PR is also good. As we are going to change it on joomla so for keep the site performance same say keywords ranking, PR so what should i do for it.

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Moving a live site to Joomla will not automatically kill your rankings, but the migration process will determine whether you keep them. Several replies touched on the main risks: URL changes, redirects and how your template outputs titles/headers. Those points are valid, but the practical work is in the details below. Public Toolbar PageRank is no longer available, so focus on organic traffic, indexing and Search Console signals instead. For Google’s guidance on URL changes see .

A compact pre-migration checklist to follow before flipping the switch:

  • Crawl the current site and export every canonical URL (use a crawler like Screaming Frog or equivalent).
  • Build a one-to-one mapping spreadsheet: old URL -> new Joomla URL. Include query-string variants.
  • Keep on-page SEO identical where possible: title tags, meta descriptions, H1s and primary content. Verify your Joomla template places the article title in an H1.
  • Implement server-side 301 redirects for each old URL to its new equivalent. Prefer simple, direct 301s (no chains).
  • Produce and submit an up-to-date XML sitemap and update robots.txt.

Joomla-specific items and common pitfalls: rename Joomla’s htaccess.txt to .htaccess and enable SEF/url rewriting in Global Configuration so you can remove index.php from URLs. Confirm your template and menu structure don’t strip H1s or move important copy behind AJAX blocks that search engines can’t crawl. Avoid adding cosmetic suffixes (like forced .html) unless you have mapped everything and accounted for redirects.

Quick troubleshooting and testing tips: test redirects with a simple 301 check and follow redirects with curl:

Redirect 301 /old-page.html https://www.example.com/new-page/
curl -I -L https://www.example.com/old-page.html

Monitor Google Search Console for coverage/crawl errors and analytics for traffic drops; small short-term fluctuations can occur, but persistent drops usually point to missing 301s, blocked resources, or structural changes (H1/meta removal) that need reversing. For HTTP 301 behavior see the MDN reference (HTTP 301).

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Basically it has no difference except that for Joomla or any other CMS, you have much more limitations to Onsite Optimization such as H1/H2 Tags etc. However, the most important thing is to make sure it's set in permalink and you have done the necessary 301 redirects to point the old pages to the new ones so that you will not lose any of the old links.

Member Avatar for w3bmast3r

Noooo not Joomla... go with Wordpress seriously Joomla is a nightmare for SEO they are waaaaaaay behind Wordpress and you know why? becasue there are liteally thousandfs of developers out there creating amazing plugins everyday.

With wordpress you can simoply add H1,H2 tags, auto meta tags custome titles... absolutely anything you want to tweak you can. I am in the process of taking one of my clients from a Joomla site over to wordpress simplybecasue we cannot get the keyword relevancy we need.
At risk of self promotion I wrote a post about some of the best which can make a huge difference to your SEO efforts.

Hi friends,

I have a website which is ranking top on most of the keywords and PR is also good. As we are going to change it on joomla so for keep the site performance same say keywords ranking, PR so what should i do for it.

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Hi friends,

I have a website which is ranking top on most of the keywords and PR is also good. As we are going to change it on joomla so for keep the site performance same say keywords ranking, PR so what should i do for it.

There is no such a difference between these .Tools that are used for optimizing this are the same as in SEO but some improvements in that are You can now enable search engine friendly URL's without using Apache Mod_Rewrite
,You can add a suffix (.html) to the URLs

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Hi friends,

I have a website which is ranking top on most of the keywords and PR is also good. As we are going to change it on joomla so for keep the site performance same say keywords ranking, PR so what should i do for it.

No it will not change any results in pagerank. also keyword ranking can be saved if you try to add tags to your links.

Member Avatar for w3bmast3r

i'm going to take a stab in the dark and sayu that this thread must be ranked well for Joomla SEO and the last two comments didn't even make sense... am i right?

Member Avatar for ashwell

I just need to learn now Joomla, I have heard about it many times so now want to gain some kowledge regarding it.

Member Avatar for leahmarie

in my opinion, using any of CMS providers out there like Joomla will have no effect on your optimization, it really lies on you, on how you optimize the pages.

Member Avatar for mystryworld

Your joomla website should not face any serious SEO related problem. However you can take some precautions. Check my signature. Here is an article you can go through it. It's interesting and might help you to understand something related to joomla and SEO.

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Thanks to all of you. I enjoyed the discussion and learned a lot.

Thanks for your valuable time.

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