Hi, I'm going to be moving a wordpress site to Drupal this week. I found a script that does most of the work, but there as SEO related issue that I'm not sure about and would like some expert opinion. Currently all of the post is wordpress take thsi form http://www.example.com/page-1-url/ Where as in drupal the trailing slash is ommited: http://www.example.com/page-1-url Using a Drupal module called 'Global Redirect' I can have request for pages automatically forwarded to url without the trailing slash. The module even throws SE a 301 so they know the page was permanently moved. What I'm not sure about is the XML sitemap. Should i just generate a new site map with the new urls (no trailing slash)? or should i specify something in the xml sitemap or even add ~500 lines to the .htaccess for every page that was moved? Thanks.
http://www.example.com/page-1-url/ and http://www.example.com/page-1-url are seen by some search engines as different URLs... You definitely should 301 redirect your old URLs to your new URLs. Once you do this, your old sitemap.xml will be invalid at Google since they do not want URLs in the sitemap.xml that get redirected when they request it. So you'll want to also generate a new sitemap.xml that contains the new Drupal versions of the URLs.