I ran across this site called Easy Link Manager today. It supposed to change your dynamic URLs into a nice SEO friendly URL. It looks good but I have some questions for the more experienced seo's here. Does anyone have any experiences with this product? Does it benefit for SEO purposes or is it just an easier URL for the viewer? Will google see duplicate content on the old URLs if you use this?
I havent had any experiences with that product. But be careful in changing you URLs coz you might lose PR (page Rank). Since changing it to a new one doesnt mean the PR you got from your old url would be accumulated to your new one.
It's a new site with 0 PR. I'm trying to change now so I can avoid changing in the future when we have more pages and a PR.
Depending on what your infrastructure is like suggest just using tools like modrewrite if your using Apache or a tool called isapirewrite if you're using Microsoft's Internet Information Server to do the URL rewrite. With your old URLs suggest you put in 401 redirects to the new URLs to ensure you don't appear to have duplicate content. Having said that I don't think it will be a big issue just make sure the cross linking in your site and in your XML sitemap uses your new Search Engine Friendly URL structure and the new URLs will supersede your old ones.