moving my site from .asp to MODx

I’m in the process of moving my site from .asp to MODx . My problem is that I currently have very good multiple page positioning in Google for many key phrases within my industry.

Currently my URLs are formatted like this:

http://section.mydomain.com/mypage.asp?Nav=%3Cid=4%3EKeyword%20Another%20Keyword%20etc%&cust=96

I’m worried that I will lose my positioning in Google by changing this. Can I / should I use .asp as my page suffix on my MODx version of the site and then name my pages in exactly the same way as above?

I would be grateful of any advice

just create a .htaccess file with redirects from the old url’s to the new. The searchmachines will change the url’s to the new ones without losing their rank

There area a few SEO plugins that will allow you to set multiple aliases to documents so that you can associate old URLs with new ones. One in particular is the Virtual Aliases plugin: http://www.stanback.net/code/modx/virtual-aliases.html

I’ve got a similar situation and I very much appreciate the advice here. I’m just trying to decide the best way. Do I understand that with the .htaccess method I would be able to type in the exact URLs as they appear at the moment and ’force’ a ridirect but with the plug in method it will only redirect to a set page?

Many thanks

IMO the plug in method will give you a handy interface to manage the redirects (via a TV in each document to set the aliases).

My old website was .asp depending on your needs you could either redirect *.asp to index.php providing the page names stay the same in MODx or you can use rewrite rules to transfer mypageaboutshops.asp to aboutshops.html

RewriteRule ^/(?!(?:manager|assets)/)(.*)\.asp(?:\?(.*))?$ /index.php?q=$1?2&$2: [NC,L,U]

Hope that helps.