I have a site that has been redesigned and the new website will be launched soon. Now, the old site has hundreds of links that have been indexed that send traffic that converts quite well. Each of these links has an equivalent page on the new site with a new link structure. I read that implementing a 301 redirect is the safest way to let the search engine know about the new link to redirect the surfer to. Now the problem is that i have over 500 links i would redirect to new links on the new site but was told that adding lots of links on the .htaccess file would slow down the server. Is there a way of doing this using a mysql table and a script that would find the old link and redirect to the new link on the server? Thanks
yes you can do it by a mysql table make 3 fields such as ID, old, new then detect the page on ariving with $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and make a 301 redirect with php itself good luck