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Old 09-08-2008, 10:34 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SuperCrewSound View Post
The titles and descriptions of the products are 90% the same, but I guess that leads directly into the second part of the question which is the URL for each product. These will be different, especially if there is the "?" in the URL on the new site (Is this a bad Thing)? Even if I convert them to standard ID #'s in the URLs, They will be differnbt with the new site, so what I'm understanding is that I should do a 301 for each page.
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Mark,

That's right. The best thing to do in this case is to 301 from the old URLs, which are already indexed by the search engines, to the new ones. Even the ID# URLs aren't ideal for SEO, so passing the ranking power of the old pages through that 301 is the best solution.
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