Potential Indexing Problems from Comprehensive Change in Page URLs - SEM 2.0

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bwelford

More options May 12, 12:53 pm

From: bwelford <barry.welf...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:53:44 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, May 12 2008 12:53 pm

Subject: Re: Potential Indexing Problems from Comprehensive Change in Page URLs

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I used a fairly heavy-duty .htaccess with 301 redirects and some
renaming of blog posts to move a Blogger blog into a different
subfolder, while converting it to WordPress. All went well and all
redirects functioned as they should at the post level. The visibility
in Google keyword searches was unaffected and high rankings were
maintained without any pause whatsoever.

The only thing I have noticed is that the Google Toolbar PageRank
dropped one point. This may well not matter and may be unrelated to
the transfer, but it was the only adverse sign. Apart from that, it
was a complete success.

The key lesson is to plan well and know in great detail how you will
handle all the small challenges that will arise. For me, it was one
Blogger label that was two words rather than one. Figuring out how to
make that a seamless transition took a little time.

On May 12, 7:10 am, Damien Anderson <dam...@blowfishdigital.com>
wrote:

> Hiya,

> This might help you out on Windowshttp://www.port80software.com/products/customerror/$99.95 Server License

> I have used it on a few projects and all have worked like a charm.

> Damien

> From: roscoe <roscoetra...@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: <SEM2@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 07:05:55 -0700 (PDT)
> To: "SEM 2.0" <SEM2@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: [SEM2] Re: Potential Indexing Problems from Comprehensive Change in
> Page URLs

> Brian, Dan, Chris, Alec and any future responders.

> Thanks a bunch for your insights and help with our major website
> overhaul. The devil is truly in the details, eh?

> The development firm is building the site on a windows platform so we
> won't be able to employ the standard 301 redirects via the .htaccess
> file but I know from looking into this previously there is an
> equivalent windows script protocol. My job will be on the testing end
> to check their work to make sure the redirects perform as I expect.

> Also appreciated the reminder on the 404 page. We need to have a
> customized one and have Google Analytics code installed on the page so
> we can track entrances to the page.

> -Roscoe

> On May 10, 6:54 am, foliovision <clientc...@emailias.com> wrote:

> > Hello Dan,

> > Actually our .htaccess redirects are more or less a script, as they
> > are carefully crafted on regular expressions. You are right - if you
> > get something wrong, it is all extremely messy. But a script can also
> > go wrong. Careful spidering tests are essential in both cases.

> > That's a good idea to add link recovery into the workflow.

> > Running a tight website is a very long list of things to check and
> > correct. It would be great to have an automatic tool which checked and
> > fixed all of this. Sometimes it looks like webwork will have to the
> > way of farming - larger plantations.

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