On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Brett wrote:
Hello All,
I have a website at www.newwheel.net which I am trying to improve
with the hope of getting higher up in google results. One
possibility that I am exploring is to change the organization of my
pages so that they are housed in folders with relative links (www.newwheel.net/about/)
as opposed to how they are currently organized (www.newwheel.net/about.php)
.
My first question is, is this a good idea, especially for search
engine visability.
The big good reason to do this is for grouping like items together:
I don’t believe there is any semantic difference between www.example.com/products.html
and www.example.com/products/index.html if that’s what you end up
doing here.
My second question is, if I go ahead with this, would it be smart to
create blank pages with the same file names as the old pages, with
timed redirects
No, terrible idea. Timed redirects count against you, not for you. If
you want to do a redirect, you must do a full 301 external redirect,
which tells the search engine This File Has Moved Permanently Look For
It Over Here. (In all caps, like that.)
Anything less is worse than doing nothing. Watch your server logs and
see how many hits each of these pages get in their current location.
Decide if it’s worth anything to move them – if it suits your file
naming strategy to get more keywords into your URL for example. And
then after you actually move them, you can set up an .htaccess file
with redirects for your most popular pages, with full 301 redirects.
to the new locations of those pages. Along with this setup, I figure
I need to have a robot.txt file that tells google etc. not to index
these redirection files.
You can do that, and Google will honor them, but I don’t know if it
would be any better than not putting those pages up until you’re ready
to wholesale change your links.
Walter
What does everybody think?
Thanks for all help.
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