I currently have a static site that I am migrating to Semiologic. All of the pages on the existing site will translate nicely and keep the same URLs, except for the home page, which is index.html. Currently, the URL www.mysite.com is ranking in Google and getting good traffic. However, the URL www.mysite.com/index.html is not even indexed by Google.
My question is ... will I retain what I've built up in Google for www.mysite.com when I switch to Word Press. I know I can configure a static home page on WordPress that automatically redirects to the domain name (without index.html in the URL). But, technically the URL will be www.mysite.com/home because home needs to be the slug when using a static home page.
Will the fact that www.mysite.com/home is the new default page instead of www.mysite.com/index.html cause problems with my rankings for www.mysite.com?
I did the static to Semiologic switch a bit ago. I did not have any problem with the home page rankings. Using the domain url will still bring up the index for that root, just like it did before. WordPress is simply going to substitute the page specified for it.