Can I change my urls?

I have many external links pointing to my inner pages but I need to change the urls is there a way I can do this without losing the links I have pointing to these pages. Or do I have to start from scratch

 

301 Redirects is the way to go. Always works like a charm. Google it, it's not hard at all... and it's definitely worth it!

 

google "htaccess 301"

and click on the 3rd link (the site is webweaver.nu)

He gives you a few ways to go about doing different redirects using the htaccess file.

 

You can use 301 redirects in your .htaccess file to safely redirect internal pages. It goes like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule my-old-page.html my-new-page.html

The browser requesting the old page will be transferred to the new page and the rankings indexing etc will be preserved by the robots.

 

Right. 301 redirects will keep the everything.

 

Thanks guys, I didnt think I was the only person who has had to change their urls before

Thanks for the info

 

separate 301 redirect is there for apachi tom cat , linux and windows hosting, based on that u have to populate the code in htaccess or in index page

 

I have spoke to my web guy about the 301 and he has told me 301 is not available on a windows server and that I need to change to a unix server. I have only just moved server and it was a right pain in the a*** Is there anything else I can use without moving servers?

 

Do you have access to any server side scripting? PHP or ASP? If so, look up 301 redirects for that language. If you can't use server side scripting, look up "client side 301".