Re: FN-FORUM: SEO ? how to retain good page ranking with new site

date posted 20th September 2007 09:43

Why not just change the SQL in the existing page (I assume there's a =20
call in the page to the SQL query) to use tblCourseListings in the =20
From rather than tblCourses ?



Quoting Paul Cooper [EMAIL REMOVED]

>
> I'm rebuilding a site that has pages well ranked in Google. The file
> for these pages is called coursedetails.asp. I pass an ID as a
> parameter so I display the correct page data. On the old site it used
> the ID from a table called tblCourses. Whereas on the new site it
> uses the ID from a table called tblCourseListings.
>
> Because of this current courses indexed in Google will either find the
> wrong course or no course at all.
>
> Therefore I think the only way around this is to use a different file
> name on the new web site for course outlines. Then change
> coursedetails.asp on the new site so it looks up the first course in
> tblCourseListings that uses the ID as a foreign key and use a 301
> redirect like this
>
> response.status=3D"301 moved permanently"
> response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.domain.com/id/page.htm"
>
> Is this the right thing to do?
>
> TIA
> Paul
>
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