URL Re-Write

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Twilight Vanquisher is right, Just do it and you will get index your New URLs Within 8-12 days.

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Canonical said: ↑

I didn't contradict myself at all... Did you even bother to read my post completely and attempt to understand it? This is how you convert a site w/ SE unfriendly dynamic URLs to SE friendly keyword rich URLs without changing the backend system. Behind the scenes (using URL rewriting) you continue to call your ecommerce or content management system with ugly URLs but the browser/crawlers never know it. The browser/crawlers only see the new SE friendly URLs.

I am VERY familiar with 301s and how they work... and with URL rewriting. There is a difference between URL rewriting and 301 redirecting. The difference is as follows:

301 Redirect URL A to URL B:

Browser/crawler requests: URL A
Server returns: status=301 Permanently Moved, Location=URL B
Browser/crawler requests: URL B (AND the URL in the browser address bar changes to URL B)
Server returns: status=200 Ok with HTML rendered at URL B

NOTE: There are 2 roundtrips to the server for a 301 redirect

URL Rewrite URL A to URL B:

Browser/crawler requests: URL A
Server returns: status 200 with HTML rendered using URL B.

The browser/crawler thinks the URL A actually exists because it returned a 200 status when in fact the server really rendered the HTML by calling URL B. In a browser, URL A remains in the address bar even though URL B is what actually rendered the page.

NOTE: There is only a single roundtrip to the server for a URL rewrite.
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But he shuold be 301 redirecting the old already index'd dynamic URL to the new rewritten URL.

Therefore URL A in your 301 example should be 301'd to URL A in your rewrite example. Otherwise your examples themselves are correct. There is no reason the dynamic URL should be listed in Google. 301 will solve that.

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Hi Canonical,

Thanks for this very useful tip. Could you please let me know how can use the rewriting on my server, I know how to use the redirect 301 on my server but I do not know how to use the second option rewrite. Do I have to do something to the website or does the rewrite occurs when you use redirect 301 etc most of my website pages are html but I am changing the names completely so redirecting will be a definite, but I need your help with rewrite.

Thanks again for the post

Canonical said: ↑

I didn't contradict myself at all... Did you even bother to read my post completely and attempt to understand it? This is how you convert a site w/ SE unfriendly dynamic URLs to SE friendly keyword rich URLs without changing the backend system. Behind the scenes (using URL rewriting) you continue to call your ecommerce or content management system with ugly URLs but the browser/crawlers never know it. The browser/crawlers only see the new SE friendly URLs.

I am VERY familiar with 301s and how they work... and with URL rewriting. There is a difference between URL rewriting and 301 redirecting. The difference is as follows:

301 Redirect URL A to URL B:

Browser/crawler requests: URL A
Server returns: status=301 Permanently Moved, Location=URL B
Browser/crawler requests: URL B (AND the URL in the browser address bar changes to URL B)
Server returns: status=200 Ok with HTML rendered at URL B

NOTE: There are 2 roundtrips to the server for a 301 redirect

URL Rewrite URL A to URL B:

Browser/crawler requests: URL A
Server returns: status 200 with HTML rendered using URL B.

The browser/crawler thinks the URL A actually exists because it returned a 200 status when in fact the server really rendered the HTML by calling URL B. In a browser, URL A remains in the address bar even though URL B is what actually rendered the page.

NOTE: There is only a single roundtrip to the server for a URL rewrite.
Click to expand...

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