Change page name problem…

[Unionbros]

I used to use following name (example only) for my page:
ww.domain_name.com/product_1.htm
ww.domain_name.com/product_2.htm
ww.domain_name.com/product_3.htm
and so on

Now I tried to change it, for example, to as such:
ww.domain_name.com/camera.htm
ww.domain_name.com/priner.htm
ww.domain_name.com/scanner.htm
and so on

Will it destroy all linking that have been presented on internet?
Thanks for your help.

[coop99]

You will loose PR on all pages where you change the url. You can put up a permanent redirect from your old pages to the new pages in order to help the search engines find them easier, then take down the old pages.

If you have high PR on the current pages, I would leave them alone as keywords in the url do not help as much as other things you could do like building links.

You could create content pages based on each product that displays information about each. At the bottom of all the content pages, you can have links to the corresponding products1.htm and so on. So you would be adding pages to your site, you could keep the old pages, and you would be adding extra content and still getting to use keywords in urls.

Just a thought, good luck whatever you decide.

[mdev]

Hello,

When you change the name of your webpages always use a 301 redirect.
Wen Google crawls your website and finds on one of your pages a 301 redirect it will index your new pages within one week.

Here you can find some more info about 301 redirects.
http://www.internetofficer.com/301-redirect.html


gr,
mdev
www.seo-toolkit.be