i want to make my website urls seo friendly. Currently urls are dynamic like -www.mydomain. com/sevices.axpx?path=1/7&cnt=10 i want to make all the urls seo friendly like -www.mydomain. com/sevices/webservices.aspx and so on. all my the pages have at least 1 or 2 PR. What should i do to retain my PR same and all the pages seo friendly.
well, you can use mod_rewrite which should come with your script your are using, if you are using any, if not then you will have to configure your .htaccess using some <cond> and <rule> functions. anyways, if your pages have already PR1 and PR2 i am sure you will get them back in now time all the best to you
I don't like using mod_rewrite for this kind of heavy lifting, but I'll recommend it anyway: http://www.websitepublisher.net/article/search_engine_friendly_urls/
You absolutely CAN retain the PR... All you need to do is 301 redirect your old SEO unfriendly querystring ridden URLs to their equivalent new SEO friendly keyword rich URLs... and then URL rewrite requests for the SEO friendly URLs back to the SEO unfriendly URLs. The 301 redirect from the old SEO unfriendly URLs to the new SEO friendly URLs will pass the new URLs credit for all inbound links (and link text) to the old URLs. Once all inbound links to the old URLs have been crawled and the 301 redirects for each of those inbound links discovered then your new URLs WILL get credit for the inbound links and PR previously passed to the old URLs WILL be passed to the new URLs. The whole process can take a few weeks or even a month or two. But your PR will return once all of the URLs that link to your site's URLs have been recrawled. At first when the new URLs go live the Google Toolbar PR will be gray barred (Page not currently ranked at Google) but behind the scenes your pages will have a "real" PR. As each inbound link to the old URLs is re-crawled and credit for the inbound link passed to the new URLs, your pages will begin reclaiming their old PR... But it won't show up in the Google Toolbar PR until the next Toolbar PR Update is published.
I wouldn't recommend so many 301, your site might look like a maicious site for the webcrawlers. just my opinion
That'll only become a problem if you redirect a redirect that's redirected by another redirect which is in turn redirected to another redirect that ends up at the destination page.
301 redirects have nothing to do w/ looking like malicious web site to crawlers. I just implemented over 4000 301 redirects on our commercial site in Dec (basically EVERY URL on the site) and our rankings have never been better... The only time redirects really get you in trouble is if you are doing something blackhat with them like using them to implement cloaking.
Wrong. They also preserve existing rankings since they tell the search engines to update their indexes (replace the old link with the new one, but keep everything else intact). And if it doesn't work, then you've done something very very wrong.