Changing Shopping Carts, How to deal with new urls.

dealing with moving a site to a new structure...

[vacorama]

Hello everyone,
I'm getting ready for a big move over to a new site structure and could use some advice. I've been working on my own shopping cart program for a while and im just about done. Up until now i have been using Miva Merchant, i basically just want the flexibility of using my own solution for the future. My main problem is that the old site should still be getting a lot of hits when i get the new one in, so i can't remove it.. But the new site will be sharing all the product descriptions with the old site, so i'd like to avoid any duplicate content penatlies from google as well. Has anyone had any experience with this sort of thing?

[shri]

Is there a common and unique indentifier for the products?

You can use UPCs or ISBN and put some code to look up the old page and the new page and redirect the user.

Let me know if this fails to make sense and I'll be happy to expand further.

[webtress]

Research using a 301 redirect (page permanently moved) for the old pages in question.