file names in url

[spinifex]

hello all :)

i have just redesigned a site for a client & it has just been picked up by the search engines in this recent update. The file names I have used eg .....com/widget.html is different to the urls tht have been recently indexed with the old design.

My question is ..should i change the file names back to what has been recently indexed by google? if i dont when googlebot comes back around he wont be able to find any of the pages that have been listed.....

My new file names contain relevant keywords & the old filenames do not ... would appreciate any input

thanks for your time :)

spin

[futureX]

probably best to just leave it as the new names and wait for the googlebot to spider it again, unless you have a lot of backlinks to those certain pagenames ;)

[Visit Thailand]

If I understand correctly you have changed the url's of many pages? i.e. domain.com/url.shtml has now become domain.com/keyword.shtml

The best thing to do and soon (very soon) would be to do 301 redirects from the old url's to each of the new urls.

That wa you are telling Google 'hey the page still exists it has just moved to here' plus anyone with links to the old url will still get the info as they are redirected to the new url.

REMEMBER one thing though DMOZ for some wird reason does not update links with a 301 it just deletes them from the index. I made this mistake and it cost me a lot of links from DMOZ.

Just do a search on this site for 301 redirects