Hello there. Please read this before giving me an answer. I have a website that I am completely revamping, and I mean the whole CMS is going to be changed. With such a change, all links to my current content is going to be changed also as I'm going to have to resubmit the content into my new CMS, which will generate a completely different link to the content. My question is, how can I change the URLs of my old content to basically redirect to the URL of the current CMS's content in a search engine friendly manner? I don't want to be banned from Google or anything from having redirects or something.. The reason why I am asking this is because my site gets 1000+ unique visitors a day just from Google, and most of that traffic is going to one of my site's many articles. Should I do the URL change through a mod_rewrite? Like just rewrite the file to the new file? Would Google notice this and not ban me? Suggestions appreciated. Thanks!
I would recommend not changin the url's unless you have to and if you do, then 301 redirect would be the right way to do it
Thanks for the response! That's going to be quite some time though! Is there any generator tool out there so that I can bulk change the URLs.
you won't need to change the urls in bulk manually. you can do it in htacees with few commands. don't know of a tool but you can check this excellent thread by Nintendo it should help