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Hi group, hope you can help.

I have a URL on my website that is currently under the directory
mysite.com/something/

But I'd like to change the URL to mysite.com/anotherthing/

This is peasy to do, of course, but I have a really big Google
ranking under the /something URL, and I'm afraid that if I
transfer to the new URL, I'd lose all that.

Is there a way to put all my content under /anotherthing, but
make anyone typing in the URL /something still get all the same
content in /anotherthing?

..htaccess maybe? Or PHP headers? Am I making no sense?

Thanks a lot,
Paul.

Jul 16 '05
11 2472
"Paul Perkins" wrote:
Stating the blummin' obvious, but how about a symlink from
/something to /anotherthing?

That works a treat... dunno why I didn't think of that before!

My only worry is the ranking in Google thing. I suppose I could
stick with the symlink for now and see how my ranking fairs.
If it starts dropping, then I'll switch to a permanently moved
URL instead.

I'm off to rummage on the Google help pages...
Cheers,
Paul.
Jul 16 '05 #11
Paul Perkins <pa**********@n ospam.logicacmg .com> writes:
Stating the blummin' obvious, but how about a symlink from /something
to /anotherthing?


Doesn't achieve the same things as the HTTP Moved Permanently. There
are now two versions of the same content: one at /something, the other
at /anotherthing. You may get penalised by search engines for having
duplicate content.

--
Giles Chamberlin
Jul 16 '05 #12

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