Tip For Converting an Authority Website to a Blog

Hello Everyone,

The great thing about the RQ Club is that you’ll receive periodic updates on situations as we incur them. What this means is what when we face challenges with building our business, we’re going to go ahead and let you in on them free so if you happen to run into a similar situation you’ll be able to handle it easier..

Our MLM Review Kings site currently gets about 700 visitors a day. But we’re starting to kick ourselves for not having it on a Wordpress Blog. We’ll be making the move over the next 2 weeks or so, so you might see the site down for a couple of days while we make the transition.

So here’s the Free Blog Tip I just promised you..

Basically if you want to convert a Website to a Blog all you have to do is edit your .htaccess file. You will want to use a 301 permanent redirect and here’s why. By doing this you keep all the SEO Benefits. Also most servers are trained to read the .htaccess file on your server before they do anything else.

So since our MLM Review Kings Website is about 630 pages as of now, although it will start growing again soon once the Blog Conversion is complete. The only way to make it work at least that we know of (and please post your comments below if you know a more efficient way to do this) is to create one line of code for each page we want redirected.

How you would do this is simply add this code to your .htaccess file at the very bottom under any code that is currently there. Add as many of these lines as you need to. Go to the very bottom, create a couple extra spaces and simply enter these lines of code, each line represents a redirect. Please note Wordpress creates each post without the html extension so notice the similarities below. Also notice you can redirect from within deep directories

redirect 301 /filename.html http://www.yourdomain.com/blogpost
redirect 301 /old//filename2.html http://www.yourdomain.com/blogpost2
redirect 301 /real/old//filename3.html http://www.yourdomain.com/blogpost3

And if you need to create an .htaccess file it’s easy. Just open a brand new text file and save it as .htaccess and you’re good. So as you can see above I’m creating a file with about 630 entries. Oh and one more tip while it’s fresh in my mind, if you have an incomplete line of 301 code, expect your website to go down. You’ll either have to trace the line of bad code and delete it, or start over with a blank file.

If our move goes smoothly, we shouldn’t lose any traffic at all.

We’ll keep you posted after the move. And like I said before, if you have any other suggestions please feel free to leave your comments below.

Cheers,
Brian Garvin
RQ Club

P.S. This cool Blogging Tip came from Carl Ocab. You should check out Carl Ocab’s Ultimate Blogging Theme. That is the exact theme we’re doing our MLM Authority Site Conversion with and incidently the same theme RQ Club is on.