ripthesystem - 11:14 pm on Sep 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have a site that I've worked on over the past 3 years. It's an older Postnuke site with PHPBB2 forums a decent amount of articles and over 30,000 pages (including articles, calendar pages, forum topics, etc).

Our useability required has outgrown the PN model and besides it's not SEO friendly at all so we're moving to a CMS which is far more customizable on these fronts. In fact, at the time the site was built I had no idea what SEO was even about..

Anyways, long story short, we're moving to Joomla which is going to be running much more updated SEF stuff when we're done with it. PHPBB2 is going to be movin' on up to vBulletin, Gallery to Gallery2, etc etc etc.

All the content (well hopefully close to all of it) will be making the transfer to the new site (same site name, different pages, same content). However, what I don't want to do is loose the search engine rankings and links that we've already aquired.

I've been doing a lot of reading on 301 redirects and they seem perfect for smaller sites. However for 30,000 pages it seems like there HAS to be a better option.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!