Changing Productcart/pc folder names

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   I was thinking of updating our productcart/pc folder names  with a more keyword rich url... however we have a lot of these pages already indexed and ranked in search engines... is there anyway to make the change and make sure the old url's are 301'd to the new location? Can this be done with the Custom 404 Handler?

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whizzinpc Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 17-January-2006 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 20	Post Options Post Reply Quote whizzinpc Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Changing Productcart/pc folder names Posted: 18-November-2008 at 7:12pm
	I was thinking of updating our productcart/pc folder names with a more keyword rich url... however we have a lot of these pages already indexed and ranked in search engines... is there anyway to make the change and make sure the old url's are 301'd to the new location? Can this be done with the Custom 404 Handler?

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: 18-November-2008 at 7:19pm
	If you have access to ISAPI Rewrite from www.helicontech.com, that would be one approach to address such a requirement.

whizzinpc Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 17-January-2006 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 20	Post Options Post Reply Quote whizzinpc Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19-November-2008 at 11:24am
	We do use isapi rewrite... I figured that would be the way to do it. I guess when its time i will go on their boards and ask them to help me set it up.

mrindian Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 31-October-2008 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote mrindian Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20-November-2008 at 2:46am
	I recently changed my folder to a strong key-word. I was worried about the dead links. But I went for it. It took about 2 weeks for the dead links to go away. Some still come up in search results, but with the custom 404 handler, they now get a page that you can tell them to re enter the search query on your site.