thinking of moving away from Zen cart

[Steeveef]

Hi everyone , Ive used Zen for maybe 15 years now and have come to the end of needing to use a shop on my web site as have gone into another direction !
Im concerned that using another web site like Wix for example or Wordpress will affect my SEO as some words Im pretty much top and I dont want to loose this. Has anyone any experience , of this move and managed it without any detrimental effect ?
Many thanks to Zen for the use of this brilliant package !
Ste

[ChuckPhillips]

Changing platforms will tank your rankings if you don't have proper redirects in place. It can take a very long time to get them back! So make sure from day 1 you have a 301 redirect from the old page to the new page for every ranked page. You only get 1 chance to get it right, and even in that case some decrease in rankings can still be expected.

[csrabus]

Hi everyone , Ive used Zen for maybe 15 years now and have come to the end of needing to use a shop on my web site as have gone into another direction !
Im concerned that using another web site like Wix for example or Wordpress will affect my SEO as some words Im pretty much top and I dont want to loose this. Has anyone any experience , of this move and managed it without any detrimental effect ?
Many thanks to Zen for the use of this brilliant package !
Ste

CONGRATULATIONS on using Zen for 15 years!
The way things are going it may take me that long just to get this thing working!
I have used several editors and tried half a dozen times to modify my home page, the template which is so cluttered even I don't like to look at it, let alone try to find something to buy.
No matter what I do, including eliminating and renaming the main_page, it comes up the same way every time.

[earp]

CONGRATULATIONS on using Zen for 15 years!
The way things are going it may take me that long just to get this thing working!
I have used several editors and tried half a dozen times to modify my home page, the template which is so cluttered even I don't like to look at it, let alone try to find something to buy.
No matter what I do, including eliminating and renaming the main_page, it comes up the same way every time.

You've used the Define Page Editor under Admin - Tools to edit the main page?

[swguy]

@csrabus please create a new thread if you want help on your issue. This thread is for the issue that @steevef has raised.

[Steeveef]

thanks , obviously my main issue is the rankings . Ill probably leave as is for the time being , but its the upgrades I simply do not have time to do anymore :-|

[mprough]

Even with redirects there will be a period where you're very "tanked", then some recovery. However, not all, as there is a measure of decay in redirects that has to come back naturally over time.
~Melanie