mod_rewrite question relating to seo
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 10:37 am
We just did a major overhaul on a website, and in doing so, changed the directory structure drastically. We switched from long ugly query strings to clean urls. What I'd like to know is what is the best way to tell google about my changed urls? mod_rewrite? My old URLS look like:
http://www.example.com/Merchant2/mercha ... y_Code=MDB
My new urls look like
http://www.example.com/product/verbose- ... oduct-name
I want to be careful not to screw anything up because our google rankings jumped drastically from this change, but there are still old urls indexed because we didn't take down the old store yet.
The thing is, the category names have changed, and I've added a product-name to the end of the url. I'd like to just tell google that anything pointing to /Merchant2 should just redirect to http://www.example.com with a 301 or something, but I don't really know the implications of that. SEO experts?
http://www.example.com/Merchant2/mercha ... y_Code=MDB
My new urls look like
http://www.example.com/product/verbose- ... oduct-name
I want to be careful not to screw anything up because our google rankings jumped drastically from this change, but there are still old urls indexed because we didn't take down the old store yet.
The thing is, the category names have changed, and I've added a product-name to the end of the url. I'd like to just tell google that anything pointing to /Merchant2 should just redirect to http://www.example.com with a 301 or something, but I don't really know the implications of that. SEO experts?