Will I loose my hits

[hibuddy]

Hi

I have a 11 months old site. I am getting few clicks as of now from Google and other search engines.I have a plain HTML to list all my products. I list almost 30 products per page.Now I am thinking using Mysql and PHP to list products like showproduct.php?id=100
for each product and store all the product details in Mysql Database. Since I am going to change from HTML to this way.

Do you see there would be any problem for google and orther search engines to read my site. Will I lose my hits from search engines?

Thanks in advance

[Patrick Taylor]

As you will be changing your URLs it will take a while for the new pages to be indexed, so you will most likely be losing some traffic in the meantime, unless you are running Apache and use mod_rewrite so that an existing URL like (eg) /showproduct/100.html leads to the "real" new product page /showproduct.php?id=100

Even better, I think, would be to have /showproduct/100 lead to the page.

[LeChuck]

Or even better, have /products/widget lead directly to the product.