What happens to your links when you move your site?

MikeNY · 01-26-2008, 10:50 PM

In preparing for a move from AA to REW, what happens to interior pages of my site that have lots of links to them? For instance, AA has horrible urls, for example

http://www.miketrinch.com/PageManage...PageID=xxxxxxx (where as the xxxxxxx is the page id) this is not a real page but an example of what the ugly URLS look like. So if I have a page that is dedicated to a certain complex, built tons of links to it, then move over to REW my page will look like http://www.miketrinch.com/complex-name.php which is obviously much nicer but now has no links built to it (yet of course), what happens? What happens if someone clicks on the old link they may find http://www.miketrinch.com/PageManage...PageID=xxxxxxx does it redirect to the new url? 2nd question would be is it a problem having all these links to a url that does not exist any more?

3rd.

If the page http://www.miketrinch.com/PageManage...PageID=xxxxxxx is on the top of all search engines for the complex name key word search, I assume I will lose that good search engine placement once it changes to http://www.miketrinch.com/complex-name.php and have to start all over again with building links, etc.

Thanks for any help.

PS - feel free to move this post to the appropriate forum if this is not the one, I am still learning where to post what. Thanks.

Aaron · 01-26-2008, 11:01 PM

I have three numbers for you ... 301

What you do here is set up 301 redirects ( Permanently Moved ) from the old URLS to the new URLS .... So as you create your REW website just keep a list of what the page used to be and what the new page will be ... Then when the new site goes live ... Just provide us with that list and ask us to implement the 301 redirects.

Now ... I cannot comment on the search engine placement question. But I do now that if a user comes across one of the old pages in the search engines then then click on it .. they will be brought to the corresponding new pages.
If you have pages that do not make sense to redirect ... just make sure to come up with a good 404 page as the search engines re-index your site.

Hope that helps ...

MikeNY · 01-26-2008, 11:04 PM

Thanks Aaron, I guess I will have to ask these questions when working on building my site here as these things come up, as well as 404 which I do not know much about.
Thanks again.

malibu · 01-27-2008, 01:12 AM

The search engines will crawl your old pages and figure out that they have been redirected. You'll probably see a slight drop in traffic for a few days when you move as the SEs figure things out. The best thing to do is 301 redirect and make sure to submit an XML sitemap to Google with the new site's architecture.

You'll get credit for your old internal links and external links if done properly.

kid disco · 01-27-2008, 08:57 AM

Echo malibu...

Also, make sure to catalog all the AA pages (i.e. URL, page topic) before they are removed, so you can 301 them to corresponding pages on the new site.

MikeNY · 01-27-2008, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kid disco

Echo malibu...

Also, make sure to catalog all the AA pages (i.e. URL, page topic) before they are removed, so you can 301 them to corresponding pages on the new site.

Thanks Kid, by catalog do you just mean go to view source, copy and paste to a text document or something?

If so that is what I was hoping a program could for me me but of course I could do it manually.

ericbramlett · 01-27-2008, 05:02 PM

Just record the URL and the page topic, so that the 301's will be easy to implement. What Aaron said to do.

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