Changing a site like that will trash your rankings, and
everyone's
bookmarks. The only way to do it would be to also add a
server redirection
with a 301 header (permanently relocated) which will provide
a seamless
redirection AND will notify the SE to adjust their indexing.
On *nix this
is easy with .htaccess - on Windows it's a bit more
difficult, but I have
done it with ISAPIReWrite (Google it).
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> Hi all - a wealth of information in here!
>
> I've read some good topics on SEO and indexing web
sites. But the one
> thing
> I'm looking for and haven't found, yet, is how will a
sites ranking be
> maintained or lost if the directory structure is
changed? I'm looking to
> trade extensioned URLs for directories for a cleaner
look? For example
> mysite.com/about.htm goes to mysite.com/about/. In this
instance only one
> page
> in the site is actually changing it's name completely.
And a few extra
> pages/content are going to be added.
>
> The site has a few decent inbound links, but nothing to
generate a lot of
> real
> high volume traffic. And I want to keep it at least
where it currently
> ranks
> at bare minimum. Suggestions, or am I just going to have
to wait to be
> recrawled by the engines?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -d-
>
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