Platform Migration Challenge
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Our website is running on a 2004 Microsoft Access DB and it’s time to ditch it…
We have a new site created using .php with a sql DB.
How can we maintain the back links and general goodwill created over time?
Example… how do we redirect something like
http://www.simplastics.com/details.asp?subcat=35917617&itm=2916 to
http://www.simplastics.com/30240 <--- (new address will look like this)
thanks
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Thanks for the insight...
Simplastics.com currently runs on IIS, however, the new site will run on a Linux based server with PHP and SQL db.
As for the 30240 trailer (LOL) unfortunately that is a misguided application of part numbers by a particular manufacturer (we don't like it either as it spiders like a zip code instead of a part number).
The new site utilizes a Magento shopping cart so we're committed to Linux.
Considering the migration to a new platform, what would be your recommendation?
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You need to 301 redirect your links. i dont like your new urls though, using numbers does not help SEO.
If you have an IIS server these things are easy to do.
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/microsoft-technologies-and-seo-web-development
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