Massive site change - best to add better KW's in url...??

I'm getting rid of a database before it becomes obsolete for the the server I'm on as I can't spend the amount of time working on a new database.

So I'm making all the pages static, currently the pages are as follows:

domain/property_details/propertiesforsale-1.html

What I'm thinking is:
domain/properties-for-sale/property-1.html
domain/properties-for-sale/property-2.html
etc..

Not many of the current database pages have any PR, so there is nothing really to worry about with that. I can set up a 301 redirect from the d/b to the new static pages so if any PR it is passed over.

Would this be fine or should I be careful with anything.

Thanks Ian

 

I understand you can keep the same URL, why not?

in any case, if you can do 301 for all pages you are fine

 

The reason for new url is for SEO with better keywords. I know that some of the search engines don't see property_details and would need an exact search including the underscore however if you use an hyphen SE class each word as individual etc...

Ian

 

Just for the record, Google claimed in a recent article that the Google bot does not give much (any?) weight to keywords in the URL. Of course, no-one believes them, but I just thought you might like to bear it in mind.

 

yes keywords in url is best option

 

even though that was a statement by Google, I do not and never will believe it!

 

Definitely put your keywords in your url as links without anchor text will be better with the keywords in it.

 

ya looks alright approach, though you may lose some rankings (if there were any).

 

that is good but keep in mind while creating new structure that you should not use many "/" in it means the url should be short not very deep by creating long folder structure.

Do 301 redirection of your old page's links to new links.

 

Thanks for all the feed back.

Cheers Ian