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To go forward with the site and make it easier to maintain, I would like to use a CMS. The site is fairly basic with about 30 pages of content.
I was wondering if anyone has any advice on how to go about this. I don't want to make any major changes to it too quickly, so as not to affect its current position in the SERPs.
In fact, the home page PR wouldn't change at all.
Depends on how the current PR has been calculated. On one of my sites almost all the inbound links are pointing to content pages, not the homepage. If there are many incoming links to content pages, PR can decrease significantly after a switch from HTML to CMS because the filenames are different.
So check first with the link: command--preferably on Yahoo because Google is filtering the link list--how many incomming links are pointing to content pages. Then carefully setup 301 redirects from these old pages to the equivalent pages in the CMS system.
The site is fairly basic with about 30 pages of content.
Then don't use a CMS.
If you are planning on expanding it at all, you may still want to go cms. It may be only 30 pages now, but when its 100 you don't want to be fooling around with links and PR. That's why I suggested converting NOW while there's not many pages to disturb. It's a real PIA to edit menus on even 50 pages everytime you add an article.
And yes, my first PR comment assumed that your links were to the home page.
