Moving store and SEO

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   We will shortly be moving our store from an old system to PC. The PC system will use the SEO URLs and the old uses a query string type URL with ?dept=999?prod=aaa etc.
These old URLs do fairly will in SERPs and naturally we want to maintain that. 

What is likely to be the most efficient way to do the redirection? Not a massive number of products involved - 350 or so.

My thought is to set up a simple database table with all the dept/product combinations and  the corresponding new URL. On a department or product view, we'd extract the dept/product to lookup the new URL and push that into a 301 redirect.

I'm not sure it would be any easier to set up with ISAPI_rewrite as each redirect needs to be unique.

Has anyone had a similar situation and how was it resolved?

Thanks

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MikeCC Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 26-August-2007 Status: Offline Points: 6	Post Options Post Reply Quote MikeCC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Moving store and SEO Posted: 12-December-2009 at 7:20pm
	We will shortly be moving our store from an old system to PC. The PC system will use the SEO URLs and the old uses a query string type URL with ?dept=999?prod=aaa etc. These old URLs do fairly will in SERPs and naturally we want to maintain that. What is likely to be the most efficient way to do the redirection? Not a massive number of products involved - 350 or so. My thought is to set up a simple database table with all the dept/product combinations and the corresponding new URL. On a department or product view, we'd extract the dept/product to lookup the new URL and push that into a 301 redirect. I'm not sure it would be any easier to set up with ISAPI_rewrite as each redirect needs to be unique. Has anyone had a similar situation and how was it resolved? Thanks

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12-December-2009 at 7:38pm
	Isapi Rewrite from www.helicontech.com is a good solution so long as it is available from your host.