Hi there I am currently going through the process of changing my URL's to SE friendly ones. They are going from there dynamic string: http://www.betastic.co.uk/gambling_news-id-201.htm to a more static style: http://www.betastic.co.uk/gambling_news/fa-cup-third-round-betting-guide.htm Anyway, my question is. How do I best redirect existing domains to new ones? Do I do each page individually to its new URL or do I redirect old pages back to homepage? Ultimately I do want to loose to the PR that I have built up on some of these pages, however I am aware I will loose some, if not all. Please advise, I would be most grateful.
Is there a clear mapping from one URL to the other? In other words, can you get 'fa-cup-third-round-betting-guide' from 'id-201'? If so you could use mod_rewrite to map all requests for the old URLs to a PHP (or whatever language you want) script which then discovers the new URL and redirects the user to it. I think PageRank is maintained over redirects so you should be okay there.
Thank you pwaring, I will take a look. That could be just the ticket! Is there any other way if you need to change the whole URL string?