Apache's Rewrite & Questions

Does our URL structure look good? And some Google Questions.

[Catnip]

OK we have created a new way of displaying our URL's and I want to check with all the great minds on here to see if they can see any problems with this new method. Here is an example of how a URL is written now on our website:

[example.com...]

And here is with our new rewriter method:

[example.com...]

Now we are planning on changing over the website end of this month just before the Google deep crawl. The old URL's will give a moved permanently. Is this the best time to make this move and is using moved permanently the proper way of doing this? I know everyone is sick of hearing about Google, but it does bring us 75% of our traffic. We currently have over 40k pages listed in Google so we want to do this without disturbing our Google traffic.

Thanks for your time and comments,

CatNip
:)

[edited by: tedster at 5:07 am (utc) on Jan. 23, 2003]
[edit reason] use generic domain [/edit]

[hakre]

google states that moved permanently is ok for them. today there was a complete thread about the 301 redirect - theory and reality. this might be interesting for you: spiders behavior on 301 redirect [webmasterworld.com].

i like the new one much more, because it's better readable and i can imagine what i would find on that page. ca me plait. ;)

[jdMorgan]

catnip,

I'd suggest:
[example.com...]
to make it clear that there are no spaces, just in case you get any type-ins. Compare to the original above, and note that the link underline obscures the "_" character.

Jim

[edited by: tedster at 5:06 am (utc) on Jan. 23, 2003]
[edit reason] use generic domain [/edit]