Changing page names after deepcrawl

should I change page names back?

[flexsez]

I made the mistake of changing some of my directory structure and
page names after my site was deep crawled by G Bot in early September.

The pages and directories I changed are getting massive views.
But of course the page that shows up in the serps does not exist
on my webserver.

The question: Is the dance over? Should I recreate the pages that
are getting showing up in all of the serps? If I understand this
G Bot thing at all, it seems that we are due for another deep crawl
some time later this week and those results will show up in the next
update.

Or should I just ride it out with the new pages (which have identical
content) and wait for the next update and lose out on all of that
traffic?

[pshea]

Presumably, the changes you made have better long term interests than a single month's results. And the "massive" nature of your views bears this out.

You could re-create those pages and use external javascript re-direct for a month or two, then pull the old pages down and live with it. I don't think you would see much harm. I have done this with success in the past as my site changes / grows / I learn.

But always focus on the long haul. The flash of the moment is like the glint of sun shining off a car fresh from the carwash. Pretty now, but it sure don't last.

[Marcia]

I do that all the time and create confusion for myself. ;)

I like 301's and 302's a lot, that way I don't get caught with duplicate content and the visitor is delivered to the right page seamlessly.

Use .htaccess to redirect the pages getting traffic to the new ones server side and you'll be fine, even with the PR, AFAIK. It's nothing dodgy, they're the same pages and apparently Google likes them.

[flexsez]

Thanks for the help.

I don't want to anger the google gods.
They are giving me too much traffic!