Ideas on salvaging page rank

[johnbmcdonald]

HI All,

I was wondering if anyone has run into this situation, and if so, how you addresses it.

I have an existing site (mostly static html) Its been there for several years. I want to replace it with CMSMS. Many of the pages on this site have hard earned google page rank associated with them.

If I replace the site with CMSMS none of the URLs are going to be the same. I don't want to loose my pagerank.

any ideas?

Thanks
John

[tsw]

http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/How_to

just use the same alias for your new pages (and rewrite to have .html at the end) that way your urls we stay the same...

[Pierre M.]

Hi John,

this "from a static site to CMSms while keeping URLs and page rank" howto is new and may be buggy, so your feedback is welcome.
Have fun.

Pierre M.