moving to friendly urls, what's the final verdict?

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moving to friendly urls, what's the final verdict?

AffiliateDreamer

11:31 pm on Mar 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

So right now my urls are like blah.asp?contentid=2343

and i'm moving over to friendly urls like articles/mycontentpagename.asp

Should I redirect to the new pages, or simply keep the page but have a link to: the page has moved, click here to continue etc.

please advice!

pageoneresults

11:47 pm on Mar 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

Redirect to the new pages with a 301 Moved Permanently status. Make sure the old URIs are not indexible. You don't want duplicate content issues cropping up after the rewrite.

AffiliateDreamer

1:46 am on Mar 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

301 huh? ok I have research how to do that one.

thanks p1

pageoneresults

2:18 am on Mar 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

What type of server are you on?

If Unix, see mod_rewrite.

If Windows, see ISAPI_Rewrite.

AffiliateDreamer

2:29 am on Mar 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

Windows box.

Rewriting is not the issue for me.

In ASP you do a Response.Redirect("http://www.example.com")...i'm assuming that does a 302. I have to research how to do a 301.

pageoneresults

2:30 am on Mar 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have to research how to do a 301.

Actually you'll be better off with ISAPI_Rewrite. IIS doesn't offer a real robust feature for doing something of this nature.