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**mingqi001** · 10-09-2010, 05:51 AM

Because of some reasons, I decide to use some plug-ins on my site(some kind urls re-write modules), which will cause the whole site urls changed.
will this affect my home page's ranking?
can anyone tell me here?

**mingqi001** · 10-11-2010, 02:52 AM

I am amazing that google index my new urls quickly, of course, not all the new urls have been indexed. And to my home page, the keywords, do not show any instable currently.
Maybe it's a good sign, if you feel sth right for your site, just do it.

**Social-Media** · 10-11-2010, 11:00 AM

Anytime you change a URL, you should 301 redirect the old URL to the new URL. And you need to do this for every page on your site that has inbound links.

Why? The 301 redirect tells the search engines that the old page has permanently moved to a new URL. It causes the search engines to transfer credit for links pointing to the old URL over to the new URL.

If you fail to do so, the new URL is basically starting all over from scratch trying to rank.

Since most people link to their home page as http://www.example.com or http://www.example.com/, typically changing the URLs of sub-pages don't hurt the home page rankings too much. But if your home page was linked to as http://www.example.com/index.html and that page no longer exists, then your new home page won't be getting credit for those inbound links anymore.

**weathor** · 10-11-2010, 05:35 PM

Dont kill urls, just update them.. Its a rule not to waste time!!

**mingqi001** · 10-11-2010, 08:40 PM

yeah, thanks for your advice Social-Media,
there are thousands urls had be re-writed, and if i do a 301 work for each one, it will take a long time.
I do notice these tow days on GA that some visits have come to a 404 error, maybe for some catalog urls i shall do a 301 work.

**eashinawelch** · 10-12-2010, 09:40 AM

If your site url's are being changed then it's obvious that it is going to affect your homepage ranking too. After changing the url your page rank will change and again you have to do something to bring your site to top position. And as far as it is concerned to 301 then it can bring your traffic back.

**francis84** · 10-12-2010, 11:05 PM

You need to do a 301 redirection in order to save you webpages' current backlinks and rankings.

**maheshpandit** · 10-13-2010, 06:13 AM

It will create a bad impact on your website. You will not get traffic from search engines. All the backlink counts will be zero and your traffic will start decreasing.

**daisyjones** · 10-13-2010, 11:06 AM

Yes, this will cause your rankings down whether you redirect pages or not as redirection will only protect the traffic not the search engine rankings for kws..

**suichiro** · 10-13-2010, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by francis84

You need to do a 301 redirection in order to save you webpages' current backlinks and rankings.

301 redirection can't save your webpage, current backlinks and definitely not your rankings! These is just the least you can do so that atleast what you've done to generate backlinks wont totally go to waste.

**mingqi001** · 10-17-2010, 09:44 AM

As you all said, the impact is now shown, the keywords rankings of homepage changing these days.
I guess the urls changing cause internal links lose its value, and these links used to point to homepage. So the homepage rankings goes down.

**Social-Media** · 10-17-2010, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by mingqi001

yeah, thanks for your advice Social-Media,
there are thousands urls had be re-writed, and if i do a 301 work for each one, it will take a long time.
I do notice these tow days on GA that some visits have come to a 404 error, maybe for some catalog urls i shall do a 301 work.

Then watch webmaster tools and GA. Create redirects for those pages that are throwing 404 errors. These are likely the pages that have inbound links from other sites.

**Benmoore47** · 10-17-2010, 07:40 PM

If you do not redirect it, your backlinks will be lost. You will start from the start.

**full house** · 10-17-2010, 09:34 PM

I don't think so, url won't affect PR but link would do... you might lost some traffic because of user confusion.

**mingqi001** · 10:27 PM

I have used site:www.mydomain.com in google to see which urls had been indexed, and did redirects for them,it's really a long list, and takes time.

Another question which I have been thinking for a long time is does google supplement index still work?
cause site:www.mydomain.com/* will see less indices, and do redirects for this indices will be more easier.
Is anyone still concerning about google supplement index?Any advices?

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Originally Posted by Social-Media

Then watch webmaster tools and GA. Create redirects for those pages that are throwing 404 errors. These are likely the pages that have inbound links from other sites.

**Atcomaart** · 10-18-2010, 06:19 AM

This is a canonical issue. If you changed your URLs so you need to do a 301 redirection.

**marf11** · 10-18-2010, 08:12 AM

I think you will lost your history as your recent rank and your keyword and you will start again without any data on google so If you changed your URLs so you need to do a 301 redirection.

**cyberdesignz** · 10-18-2010, 08:51 AM

Hi,

First fact is this that redirection is not good in Google's eye and secondly why do you want to harm your domain age as its most important for your web site.

**php developer** · 10-19-2010, 08:47 AM

Yes, you should 301 redirection older url to new url. It lost your page rank and backlink for that url. 301 redirect is good option for you.

**Sierra Charlie** · 10-21-2010, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by cyberdesignz

Hi,

First fact is this that redirection is not good in Google's eye and secondly why do you want to harm your domain age as its most important for your web site.

Hey Man, get your stuff right. The last time I saw 301 redirects are OK with all the search engines. Especially with Google. Only thing is you have to be smart with what you do.

Furthermore, if anyone here designed a website during the past three years without sensible URL rewrite policy, there is something seriously wrong with them.

What has to be done in this case is redirect all the old pages to the new ones. Can be a pain if many parameters are passed. But there are no shortcuts in terms of SEO. If crawlers can't determine a clear path to send your link juice you are gonna lose it. period.