Can anybody help me How to convert WordPress blog to shopify without losing SEO

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Hello,

I want to move to Shopify but I am afraid I would lose my SEO work.

Here is what I want.

  1. I’ve developed a blog about Sports League that provides information. I purposefully launched it as an educational blog in order to increase visitors. Up till I consider turning it into a shop, it’s operating perfectly.

Woocommerce is fantastic, but I discovered that most of the nice features are expensive and need a lot of parameter tweaking.

2- I want to switch it over to Shopify and keep the same URL structure. Like https://crickist.com/live-ten-sports-streaming-psl/ have to the same url when it load from Shopify. I haven’t set up a shop page but thinking about keeping it https://crickist.com/ way.

3- I’ll be processing payments with 2Checkout. I’m hoping Shopify will help.

4- The stock management feature in woo-commerce is automatic. For instance, if a sports jersey is purchased, the specified quantity should be reduced.

But most significantly, if something goes wrong, it would be extremely difficult to regain SEO authority.

I appreciate your support.

Many thanks

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  1. Plan sounds somewhat reasonable. Only thing is how purchase ready is that traffic? If they’re seeking free, informational blog resources it might be a bit optimistic to convert that traffic to purchases. Possible you could retarget ads/emails somehow - could work out somehow.

  2. Exact same URL blog structure, no. Shopify has its own blog & article URL structure. You can use redirects from old → new.

  3. Possible, but be prepared to pay a 3p gateway fee (typically ~1%) in addition to gateway fees. Most stores on Shopify use Shopify Payments because it doesn’t incur this charge and tends to work out cheaper.

  4. Shopify has a similar set of inventory features as Woo by default. Though both are very basic.

There’s no 100% perfect way to do this, there are tradeoffs and risks no matter how careful you are.

Can always retain the ‘old’ site for a few months and roll back (switch DNS A/CNAME back) if it’s a disaster.

But if you migrate the content well (text, links, images, titles/metas, schema etc) then setup good redirects, that’s about the best you can do.

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Hey Terri,

Migrating the whole website will be messy. You can migrate slowly while you have a lesser audience online though this will not be recommended practice for just a shop.

Instead, make a subdomain like shop.crickst.com and register it with Shopify.

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