Transfering from ASP to PHP (Drupal, large site)

[Dimaseo]

I have a custom ASP site that is around 1K + pages. All of the traffic is organic and the site receives a fair amount.

Question: Anyone transferred a site from ASP or HTML to PHP and seen a big change in serp rankings and traffic? Would you be worried about doing it (obviously all the URL's would be the same, only the language would change).

I am a little worried about changing the language since I haven't done it before on a large site the is all organic (and important to me). Trying to automate the site and php is the only way I can go. Any comments in which you can relate would be appreciated.

 

[wdmny]

I moved from ASP to PHP. Redirect your URLs and it's not really going to be an issue. The visitors and SEs have no idea what language your site is based on. The real issue with a site that size is making sure every little thing works, especially if your site wasn't dynamic before, but was more static and you're working on porting it all to be dynamic.

 

[Skippy McGee]

Since both are server-side executions before the page is rendered your visitors shouldn't be able to tell the difference... other than the fact that the site will probably be much quicker now.

How are you importing all your records - in MySQL or something like CCK and Node Import?