New site is indexed, but still need to rewrite the urls

any suggestions

[da_clicks]

Hi All,

Launching a new site and just noticed it has some pages indexed in G already (before we wanted it to be). However, most pages getting indexed are the actual file names/urls and we have intentions to rewrite the urls (so pagename.asp?id=PARAMETER is indexed and we are planning to rewrite to /pagename/parameter.html or something).

Anyway, if we set up the url rewrites to give us some clean, static looking urls, how should we handle those already indexed pages in G to ensure we aren't penalized for dup content?

Should we use 301 redirects on the indexed files to point to the rewritten URLs? Would that put us in an infinite loop?

Any input would be appreciated.

[jdMorgan]

For Apache servers, this thread describes the entire process, including avoiding the potential rewrite-redirect loop: Changing Dynamic URLs to Static URLs [webmasterworld.com]

Jim

[da_clicks]

jdmorgan,

Awesome - thanks so much for the link!