[thelist] URL Renaming, Page Rank, Strategy
Ilijevski Dalibor
dalibor.ilijevski at softserbia.com
Fri Feb 18 02:42:14 CST 2005
Hi Rich,
I suggest you to use Apache's mod_rewrite and show new files when
someone someone tries to open the old ones. That will maintain the Page
Rank.
Ilija
http://www.softserbia.com
http://www.madeinserbia.co.yu
>Howdy,
>I'm working with a client that has had many webmasters over the years.
>It seems that each one had their own unique way of naming files. So the
>site has .htm and .html files, most of the urls have capital letters
>(something I hate), some of the urls use hyphens others use underscores
>and lots of them have spaces or %20 in them.
>
>here is an example url
><a
>href="/product_pages/Product_Demi_Jus%20de%20Poulet%20Lie%20Gold%20.htm">Chicken
>Demi-Glace</a>
>
>I would like the urls to look something like this
><a href="/product_pages/demi_jus_de_poulet_lie_gold.html">Chicken
>Demi-Glace</a>
>
>or even
><a href="/demi_jus_de_poulet_lie_gold.html">Chicken Demi-Glace</a>
>
>This is a fairly large site that has been online for 8 years, it has a
>Google page rank of 5. I'm afraid if I rename the files I will loose
>the page rank. I could use .htaccess redirects to do this but I'm not
>sure if that's the way to go.
>
>My question is what is the best way to do this while maintain page rank?
>
>Thanks
>Rich
>
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