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I'm using Joomla now, and I've got a couple hundred hits from google every month, along with a decent ranking for certain keywords. I don't wnat to loose that, but I'm afraid that once I switch to this CMS the URLs will be different, and I'll loose that traffic.

Any suggestions on how to fix that?

What do they look like now?...

What does what look like now? The URLs?

If so, here's an example of one: http://centralpetz.com/content/blogsection/4/26/
Each page also has keywords in the title at the top of the browser.

Should I just keep the joomla pages up and redirect them to the new site?

If I understand well, you have :
old Joomla URLs : /content/12/34/
new CMSms URLS : /solutions/services/firstoffer(.html)

Moreover I suppose your content has an oldnew mapping.

I think the mapping should be implemented has 301 ("permanently moved") redirects at the webserver level to instruct bots that the well ranked content at /old is now at /new. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mo ... tpermanent for an Apache mod_alias example.
RedirectPermanent /old /new
Lighttpd should work somewhat the same.

So both CMS should stay installed together for a while, the time all bots have learned about the new URL scheme.

PM

PS : edit : I hope you have less than 50 URLs, because you need one redirect line for each...
PPS : may be joomla has an integrated "moved URLs" feature, as CMSms. See Joomla manual.

Thank you, I'll try the 301 redirect.