Hello Guys!! Need very special comments on this please as for some security reasons my site's SEO pages are going to change from http://www.site.com/keyword.html to http://www.site.com/keyword-123.html Is this effect any how SEO wise i mean in serps, google algorithm, in webmaster tools...? Please help me and pass your suggestions in this point.. Need support from all SEO's Thanks in advance Infograb
if you don't do a proper redirect you'll lose everything you already had - backlinks, Pagerank, everything - you'll be starting from scratch. Unless - you tell google that this is a permanent redirect http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633
In fact, the first response is correct. All internal pages on the site will be back to square one. To the SE's a new URL is a new/different page. I am intersted in how adding -123 might solve any security concerns. I suspect it won't.
Magda and Willybfriendly are both correct... Sorry Wordpress Expert... But what you have said is incorrect. If Infograb does not 301 redirect every old URL to the equivalent new URL then the new URL will start over from scratch trying to rank with zero inbound links... By 301 redirecting requests for http://www.site.com/keyword.html to http://www.site.com/keyword-123.html, the search engines will transfer credit for inbound links to http://www.site.com/keyword.html to http://www.site.com/keyword-123.html. I just answered basically this same question on another post about changing page names:
Great advice there magda. Infact, almost anything regarding google can be found in google webmaster tool.
I think if you do a proper 301 redirect and go slowly with few pages at a time then it wont create any problem. But still i think the earlier url will be better at any given day. So what i would say is if its possible to avoid this change its great.... but if its inevitable then you may go for it. Thanks.
Still confused to do so.. Any ways Thank you Guys for your replies.. If any one in DP had done so please help me for this doubt..