Moving pages

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Growler, Aug 31, 2005.

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    I have some web pages within a directory on my site, they have a pr3 ranking, I don't really want to lose it, whats the best way to move my pages to another directory on my site without losing my pr and search engine placement.
     
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  2. fryman

    fryman Kiss my rep

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    you could do a redirect... but why are you even moving them? Is it really necessary? Even if you do a redirect you can always end up loosing any rankings, and PR will take a while to be passed through to the new pages
     
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    SaN-DeeP Well-Known Member

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    true, make sure you do a 301 redirect,
    my assumption is, it wont take any longer then 15-30 days
     
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    Because I had them hidden in about 6 or 7 directories deep in my web root, ended up with a real long url, does this affect anything having a long url??
     
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    I made major changes to one of my sites' urls recently. 301 redirected thousands of pages. There was a brief drop in traffic (~1.5 weeks) and now all is back to normal and seems to already be paying back as the traffic seems to be higher than before the changes were applied.
     
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    How do I 301 redirect pages??
     
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