A little while ago, I posted a blog entry as a guest blogger on seablick.com. I'm putting a link in this blog to that entry, so that anyone searching for it here can find what they are looking for.
I have done a guest blog entry at seablick.com about using 301 redirects to maintain search engine indexing when you change sites, urls or even website technologies.
Understanding 301 Redirects
Since writing this post, I've actually helped migrate a few more sites using 301 redirects with the Url Master product. These have included:
- Converting an old template based PHP site to a DNN install
- Migrating an older CMS to DNN
- Migrating a set of DNN Urls which were accidentally indexed for a test site to the live version
If you have decent PR for your site, then the process of eliminating old Urls and replacing them with new urls in the search indexes seems to take < 10 days or so.