Moving from Shopp to WooCommerce...
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My site is ranking well on most of my products and honestly, I don't do the best job in "on product page" SEO. I've got solid URLs for each, but my "on page" grades are mostly C, D and Fs.
I honestly feel fortunate that I'm ranking well and have "put off" doing much work knowing that I was going to change from the Shopp wordpress plugin to Woocommerce.
Is there anything structurally that will potentially hurt me from changing framework? Do I need to make sure that the URLs are the EXACT same for each of my products or will it be okay to make them better? Ex. some pages have a less desirable URL because I just "copied" the previous item.
Thanks in advance for your experience.
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Hi David, has your question been answered? Please give us an update. Thanks! (Christy)
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Did that work, David?
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Hi!
You can try this one, http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/screenshots/ if you expirence so called redirect loops after you install this plugin, you should inactivate it. Let me know if it works with Yoast!
/Robert
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Thanks for the responses guys. I'm using Yoast SEO. I've moved over to using it instead of all-in-one SEO. Robert, can you suggest a redirect plugin? I don't have any experience messing the htaccess files.
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Hi David,
Its a good thing that you have decided to work with Woocommerce, since its well optimized for SEO, and in the latest version, schema is included. Be sure that you redirect (301) your old urls to the new urls. You can do that with a redirection plugin or via the htaccess file, I prefere htaccess. Are you working with the Wordpress SEO plugin?
Good luck!
/Robert
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Redirect if you plan on changing URLs. One thing you have to make sure is having all URLs in an excel sheet and create redirects for each one that is changed.
You'd also have to make sure to import all your descriptions and title tags etc etc.
Those are some of the main hurdles in SEO and changing carts or CMS.
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