How To Update A Sitemap Without Hurting Positions

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by tankard, Mar 17, 2008.

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    Well, I got this old blog and because it's old, the permalink structure is not really good. Then I updated it recently but this brings me to another question. How do I update my sitemap to keep the damage as low as possible?

    You see, all urls in my sitemap and also in GG results were blog/post?id=1 etc. Now the urls are blog/key-phrase and so on. Can I just rewrite the sitemap with the new urls and let GG deal with it the way she wants?

    Thanks.
     
    tankard, Mar 17, 2008 IP
  2. KiwiPulse

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    Personally I use xml-sitemaps which update automatically my sitemap :p
     
    KiwiPulse, Mar 17, 2008 IP
  3. websitetools

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    You need to make sure you permanently redirect the old URLs to the new URLs if you want to maintain their PageRank from outside backlinks.
     
    websitetools, Mar 17, 2008 IP