Mod_rewrite short url - lose se ranking

Discussion in 'Apache' started by MilesB, Jan 27, 2007.

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    Hi I want to rewrite my urls but if I do will I loose my current page rankings on search engines? How can I keep them?
     
    MilesB, Jan 27, 2007 IP
  2. Nintendo

    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    If all your URLs are indexed, don't fix it if it's not broken!!! You want to do mod_rewrite before the pages get indexed!!!!
     
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    Oh crap, all my pages have been indexed
     
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    You can setup the rewrite rules and then 301 redirect the old indexed pages to the new pretty URLs so that search engines will transfer your pagerank, etc.
     
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