I am going online with a new shopping cart in the next few days. I was with a company called Volusion and I am changing to a cart called Magento. The page that ranks the highest is the main page, the www.mystore.com. And the other pages that rank decently are .html files.
I understand how to redirect the pages that have files that end in .html, but does the main page need to be redirected? The opening page on Mageno is index.php, but what is it for Volusion? I have typed in index.htm, .html, .asp, .bunch of other stuff.
Does it need to be redirected even though I just want it to link to the main page in that directory?
Also, I have several articles on my site that are linked from people posting in forums, etc. So the URL for these links are www.mystore.com/Articles.asp?ID=133. Can these be properly redirected?
Final question, is there a way to find out what pages do rank organically?
Thank you for the help.... id the main page gain a good position on SEs and already have some visitors.. i think its better to maintain it.. but if the changes can improve more then do it.. Quote: Originally Posted by someoneyoudonotknow
Does it need to be redirected even though I just want it to link to the main page in that directory? When I do the redirection, I make sure that the www and non www issues are properly fixed. Also, the index.html and/or index.php or whatsoever should be redirected to main domain such as www.domain.com alone.
Quote: Originally Posted by someoneyoudonotknow Also, I have several articles on my site that are linked from people posting in forums, etc. So the URL for these links are www.mystore.com/Articles.asp?ID=133. Can these be properly redirected? I don't think there would be a problem if you will redirect them.
Quote: Originally Posted by someoneyoudonotknow Final question, is there a way to find out what pages do rank organically?
Thank you for the help.... I guess you got logs, statcounter, google analytics, etc? Use that. I would suggest redirecting with a .htaccess file with that you can 301 redirect any page to any other page. You want to make sure you do a 301 redirect when you do this or else the PageRank might not be reassigned.
If I were you I would create a regular expression that would redirect all forum posts in the .htaccess file to where ever and do the same with all .html files.
Lastly to find out what pages do rank organically, you'd need to first know what keywords they might rank for - you can guess at this or view your analytics or stats. Then use something like Rank Checker by seobook to check your rankings.
I understand how to redirect the pages that have files that end in .html, but does the main page need to be redirected? The opening page on Mageno is index.php, but what is it for Volusion? I have typed in index.htm, .html, .asp, .bunch of other stuff.
Does it need to be redirected even though I just want it to link to the main page in that directory?
Also, I have several articles on my site that are linked from people posting in forums, etc. So the URL for these links are www.mystore.com/Articles.asp?ID=133. Can these be properly redirected?
Final question, is there a way to find out what pages do rank organically?
Thank you for the help.... id the main page gain a good position on SEs and already have some visitors.. i think its better to maintain it.. but if the changes can improve more then do it.. Quote: Originally Posted by someoneyoudonotknow
Does it need to be redirected even though I just want it to link to the main page in that directory? When I do the redirection, I make sure that the www and non www issues are properly fixed. Also, the index.html and/or index.php or whatsoever should be redirected to main domain such as www.domain.com alone.
Quote: Originally Posted by someoneyoudonotknow Also, I have several articles on my site that are linked from people posting in forums, etc. So the URL for these links are www.mystore.com/Articles.asp?ID=133. Can these be properly redirected? I don't think there would be a problem if you will redirect them.
Quote: Originally Posted by someoneyoudonotknow Final question, is there a way to find out what pages do rank organically?
Thank you for the help.... I guess you got logs, statcounter, google analytics, etc? Use that. I would suggest redirecting with a .htaccess file with that you can 301 redirect any page to any other page. You want to make sure you do a 301 redirect when you do this or else the PageRank might not be reassigned.
If I were you I would create a regular expression that would redirect all forum posts in the .htaccess file to where ever and do the same with all .html files.
Lastly to find out what pages do rank organically, you'd need to first know what keywords they might rank for - you can guess at this or view your analytics or stats. Then use something like Rank Checker by seobook to check your rankings.