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What is the best way to make this switch? I'm worried about having duplicate content or being penalized in some way. I'm confused about how Google will find all the pages it once had, won't they be gone when we switch over? Or can they co-exist together?
So far I've searched through all of these threads [google.com] (on the first page) and either the answer isn't here, or I may not uderstand it if it is.
Also, I don't understand this stuff very well, so please let me know if I need to explain anything, thanks:)
Is this not a good idea? From what I've read, it seems like some people have had success with it. I'm a little worried about this decision and how to go about it. This site is sorta my bread and butter;) Any thoughts or experiences with this would be greatly appreciated by those who have done this.
If the latter was there a reason you picked those specific pages? If - for example - you took the main page and some other important sub pages - it isn't suprising they ranked better.
A better test would be to take 100 pages all on the same level and change 50 at random.
I think the challenge is getting google (and others) to crawl them. I don't think google will rank them much differently as long as they fetch them.
>A better test would be to take 100 pages all on the same level and change 50 at random.
The pages I made static were search result pages from a database query - for a particular name brand product. I made about 20 of them.
>I don't think google will rank them much differently as long as they fetch them.
Ya, that's what I'm trying to figure out. Do you think it would be dangerous to make the static site and keep the dynamic site through one update to compare the two?
dynamic page can have different title, key word ....
For example, my dynamic page has pr3, no matter what you search.
if you have static page, you can only have limited pr3 pages.
>dynamic page can have different title, key word ....
Is there an easy way to this? I asked the programmer about it and he didn't have any answers.
If there is, maybe this would be better than making the site static?
hm. my membership here was full member, sometime ago somehow I was downgraded to junior
It requires a great bit of forethought and planning, but once done, the maintenance will be minimal.
i went the other way converting static html to dynamic pages. if you combine this with the use of mod_rewrite the urls look totally static. nobody, including google, would ever know that they were dynamic.
perhaps you only have to apply mod_rewrite to allay your concerns, if this is the case, and your old urls are consistent, you can even redirect calls to your old dynamic urls to your new 'static looking' urls.
i would highly recommend dynamic pages combined with mod_rewrite
