My website's few urls are going to change after sitefinity upgrade. And few urls will get change so Now i want to know is there any tool which can scan the pages automatically and report me that these urls are changed which were earlier this.
or suggest any other possible technique.
Andy Langton
8:40 am on Apr 20, 2012 (gmt 0)
You can use one of the many link databases (e.g. Majestic SEO or Open Site Explorer) available to see all of the prior URLs that had external links - and these are the ones you will need to migrate via a 301 to their new locations.
Incidentally, if your website platform changes URLs as part of an upgrade, I would be very cautious - URLs are fundamentally your footprint on the web, and changing them always brings a risk of losing value created over time. Changing URLs with any frequency could substantially harm your site's performance.
Robert Charlton
5:47 am on Apr 21, 2012 (gmt 0)
My website's few urls are going to change...
Not sure what you mean by "few urls". Do you mean "not many", or do you mean something else? (The word "few" in the US usually means about 3.)
This is an extremely important point, as changing a url of a page with inbound links to it can cause it to lose linking credit. Depending on your CMS and how your site is set up, changing urls can also cause internal navigation links to break on your site.
To repeat Andy's point...
if your website platform changes URLs as part of an upgrade, I would be very cautious
There's something about how you're asking your question that suggests you're being way too casual about what needs to be done. As far as I know, there's no tool that detects url changes after the fact.
You need to determine before you launch how the urls are going to change... set up a list, spreadsheet, or database to track them... and you then need to redirect the original urls that had external links and to change links within your page content.
I'd recommend reading this thread carefully to get the sense of how things need to be planned....
Xenu's Link Sleuth is an excellent tool to get a list of the urls currently on your site; you should certainly make sure you have that list before you start the change, even if you don't make use of it that early, but really your plan to 301 (or 302 or 404) your old urls should be developed before you make any changes. :)
