How to keep damage low on Google after the change of URL's
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Hi Peeps,
Hope someone can shed a light on this and show a guidance if possible. We are going to move our sites to shopify and shopify's URL's cannot be customized to match exactly like our current URLs. What steps do I need to take so google knows the URL's are changed. Domain will be the same.
Thank you in advanced.
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Unless others have any input, I believe redirects are the sole method of linking to changed URLs. Search engines seem to be quite happy with them.
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This was perfect Vadim, thank you very much for your research, do you recommend any other steps other than redirects. thank you
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Hi Cemal,
I found this from Shopify's Knowledgebase:
You can find the Redirect feature in your Navigation tab in the admin, at the bottom of the page.
Redirects are a great way to point old product URLs to your new URLs when migrating from another store or cart service to Shopify. A redirect is defined by the path which accesses it (for example, "/categories/sports/boomerang"), and the target location to which the site visitor is redirected (like "/products/wooden-boomerang").
Note that the following paths cannot be used when redirecting:
- /application
- /cart
- /carts
- /orders
- /shop
- /products
- /services
- NEW also queried URLs can be redirected from, for example: "/store/products.php?=yellow-kite"
Link: http://support.shopify.com/customer/portal/articles/75541-can-i-create-url-redirects-
Let me know if this solves your issue without causing like you said damage. But do remember even redirects can take 30-90 days for successful link juice passing depending on the scope of URL redirects.
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