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I am looking for a way to improve SEO on a MODx website. It has been my experience that when an old website is converted to a new website the old links are important to maintain to build off the good will of the old links. What I am trying to figure out is a way to make the link forward process easier with direct control inside of MODx. Has anyone ever done this or tried this?
Not sure I understand. Why not just create the pages with the same URLs? I do this on a regular basis. If you have an interior page that has a Page Rank you don’t want to lose that. Otherwise, 301 re-direct in the .htacess file would work.
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It is better if you can duplicate the URL structure of the old site, especially if the content at each new page corresponding to an old URL will be roughly the same or at least on the same theme. A small amount of link juice is lost in a 301 redirect, so having the same URLs is slightly better.
The exception to this would be if your old URLs are not "friendly," that is, if they have query string parameters or other ugliness or if they just weren’t keyword-optimized at all. In that case, the benefit you gain from using keyword-optimized friendly URLs might outweigh the loss of link juice involved in 301 redirects. In that case I would advise switching to the new URL structure, but make sure you 301 redirect all old URLs to a new URL. Also, if you have external backlinks to these pages, you might want to see if you can get the other websites to change their links to point to the new URLs wherever possible.
I’ve never used redirector, but it looks like it would do just fine. Just make sure your redirects return 301, and also avoid "chaining" redirects wherever possible.
