Hello

Thank you for a great component. Keep up the great work.

I have a site with close to 1000 articles that are on Joomla Content Manager, which are all linked in some way or another over the internet via Social Media, and other sources.
I am desperate to start using K2, and am ready to make the switch, however, I am worried that when I switch over, there will be a lot of broken links to my site, which is destroy my Google Ranking as people who click on an "old" link, will find a page not found error.

One way around this is I could start publishing new articles using K2, and leave the Joomla Content untouched, but just don't like it anywhere on the site. That way, we will start building a nice K2 list, but will still have the old Joomla content online so if someone does click those old links, they will still find it.
I dont really like that idea because I still want to list and link (within the website) the old articles.

Another way is to import all the articles, and just have them under K2. But I think the issue with that will be the linking part. I am assuming that they will not have the same URL as when the articles were under Joomla Conent Manager, which will result in broken links again.

I also dont want to have both the old articles listed in K2 and Joomla content because that is double content, which is a killer for Google rankings.

Hope you all understand what I am trying to say.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

The proper way to go would be to migrate all the content to K2.
Rebuild your menus so they have the same structure.
Now you can use an SEO extension or K2's advanced SEF to remove the prefix part or the id so these URLs match the old ones.

From that point the 404 errors will be only a few so you can manually set redirects.

Thank you for the reply.

Any suggestions on which SEO Extensions to use?

Try with K2's default SEO settings + proper menu matching, if these do not offer the functionality you need then I think sh404sef might do the trick.