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I should have done this before, but now I am realizing I should have used more keywords in the filenames when I created images for my site. I also should have named the web pages with keywords.
Is there anything I need to watch out for when changing filenames? Do I need to leave the old file names up - or will that cause a duplicate content issue? Should I take care not to rename any pages that are too important?
Thanks. Quote: Originally Posted by Buzzlord I should have done this before, but now I am realizing I should have used more keywords in the filenames when I created images for my site. I also should have named the web pages with keywords.
Is there anything I need to watch out for when changing filenames? Do I need to leave the old file names up - or will that cause a duplicate content issue? Should I take care not to rename any pages that are too important?
Thanks. First of all it's certainly a good idea to change file names because it does affect SEO.
As for the best way to do it I'm not too sure. I think simply changing your image names and the image HTML is not a problem. But changing the page names may be a slight problem. I think the best way to do it is create the new page upload it to your directory and link to the new page. Next redirect from your old page location to your new page. What do you mean by "...have named the web pages with keywords.."? Do you mean URLs or Titles?
If you only change titles there is no problem. If you change URLs, you should redirect the old URLs to the new ones. No worried with the duplicate issues if you use rel=canonical Quote: Originally Posted by stylight What do you mean by "...have named the web pages with keywords.."? Do you mean URLs or Titles?
If you only change titles there is no problem. If you change URLs, you should redirect the old URLs to the new ones. Absolutely!
Quote: Originally Posted by jhoanna No worried with the duplicate issues if you use rel=canonical This directive is used in cases where multiple pages are basically the same for reasons such as dynamic sites creating multiple pages with different urls due to search categories etc. http://www.google.com/support/webmas...&answer=139394
It is not really intended for situations of changing files name (new URLs). In which case you should be using a 301 redirect. http://www.website-development-training.com/301/ Quote: Originally Posted by stylight What do you mean by "...have named the web pages with keywords.."? Do you mean URLs or Titles?
If you only change titles there is no problem. If you change URLs, you should redirect the old URLs to the new ones. Yeah I mean the actual URLs, and that makes perfect sense.
So what I want to do is rename the files and fix the links, then go back and make sure that there is a file with the old filename that redirects to the new filename.
Really wish I would have done this earlier . I guess changing image filenames will be easier than pages. Quote: Originally Posted by Buzzlord Yeah I mean the actual URLs, and that makes perfect sense.
So what I want to do is rename the files and fix the links, then go back and make sure that there is a file with the old filename that redirects to the new filename.
Really wish I would have done this earlier . I guess changing image filenames will be easier than pages. You need to do an actual 301 permanent redirect, not something like a meta refresh tag. Once you have done it you can verify that a 301 redirect is being returned by the server by viewing the server header of the old URL. http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
Is there anything I need to watch out for when changing filenames? Do I need to leave the old file names up - or will that cause a duplicate content issue? Should I take care not to rename any pages that are too important?
Thanks. Quote: Originally Posted by Buzzlord I should have done this before, but now I am realizing I should have used more keywords in the filenames when I created images for my site. I also should have named the web pages with keywords.
Is there anything I need to watch out for when changing filenames? Do I need to leave the old file names up - or will that cause a duplicate content issue? Should I take care not to rename any pages that are too important?
Thanks. First of all it's certainly a good idea to change file names because it does affect SEO.
As for the best way to do it I'm not too sure. I think simply changing your image names and the image HTML is not a problem. But changing the page names may be a slight problem. I think the best way to do it is create the new page upload it to your directory and link to the new page. Next redirect from your old page location to your new page. What do you mean by "...have named the web pages with keywords.."? Do you mean URLs or Titles?
If you only change titles there is no problem. If you change URLs, you should redirect the old URLs to the new ones. No worried with the duplicate issues if you use rel=canonical Quote: Originally Posted by stylight What do you mean by "...have named the web pages with keywords.."? Do you mean URLs or Titles?
If you only change titles there is no problem. If you change URLs, you should redirect the old URLs to the new ones. Absolutely!
Quote: Originally Posted by jhoanna No worried with the duplicate issues if you use rel=canonical This directive is used in cases where multiple pages are basically the same for reasons such as dynamic sites creating multiple pages with different urls due to search categories etc. http://www.google.com/support/webmas...&answer=139394
It is not really intended for situations of changing files name (new URLs). In which case you should be using a 301 redirect. http://www.website-development-training.com/301/ Quote: Originally Posted by stylight What do you mean by "...have named the web pages with keywords.."? Do you mean URLs or Titles?
If you only change titles there is no problem. If you change URLs, you should redirect the old URLs to the new ones. Yeah I mean the actual URLs, and that makes perfect sense.
So what I want to do is rename the files and fix the links, then go back and make sure that there is a file with the old filename that redirects to the new filename.
Really wish I would have done this earlier . I guess changing image filenames will be easier than pages. Quote: Originally Posted by Buzzlord Yeah I mean the actual URLs, and that makes perfect sense.
So what I want to do is rename the files and fix the links, then go back and make sure that there is a file with the old filename that redirects to the new filename.
Really wish I would have done this earlier . I guess changing image filenames will be easier than pages. You need to do an actual 301 permanent redirect, not something like a meta refresh tag. Once you have done it you can verify that a 301 redirect is being returned by the server by viewing the server header of the old URL. http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp