web site - changing strucuture...

switching from dynamic site to static html

[dmitri]

I want to switch my site from dynamic (Using PHP) to static html - but I a little afraid - how does it affect my search engine positioning?

The thing is that all links to my site from search engines indexes become different - for example now link looks like /index.php?firm=992348739&cntm=0 and in static it will look like /keyword1_keyword2.html

So does it mean I will have a lot of problems with search engines (especially Google) and my traffic goes down?

Thanks

[Susanne]

Yes, you will see a temporary drop until search engines have found your new pages. Give it at least two months for Google. Help engines by setting up a site map linked to your main page by a simple text link. Add links to all your pages in the site map, with keywords in link text and maybe a sentence to explain where the link leads. Cheers!

[bcc1234]

Make sure you set up redirects from your dynamic pages to static pages. And use 301 redirect, that way you won't lose anything.