[TYPO3-english] simulateStaticDocuments: Getting rid of "alias" in URLs without loosing page rank!?

[Peter Russ]

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Absender:   Martin Bless
Datum:       30.03.2010 11:22:
> A customer has a big and elaborated multilanguage site with a lot of
> pages with aliases. The aliases were (mis) used to create some kind of
> speaking URLs. So we have something like::
>     project.0.html
> 
> It seems much better to use the title for that pupose. Its longer and
> translates automatically. So now we have:
>    Project.project.0.html
>    Projekt.project.0.html
> 
> I now could simply remove the alias, resulting in what I would like to
> have:
>    Project.123.0.html
>    Projekt.123.0.html
> 
> BUT:
> The site has fairly good page ranks. When I start removing the
> aliases, the old links Google knows about will run into a
> 404-Page-not-found error.
> 
> Q:
> What can be done best in this situation? The goal is to get rid of the
> aliases in the URLs while keeping the page rank.
> 
> Wishful thinking ...
> An option would be great that tells simulateStaticDocuments to always
> use numbers on creation of links while still accepting aliases on
> receiving.
> 
> 
> Switching to realurl or cooluri ist not an option.

Check the appropriate pages and do a permanent redirect to the new ones. 
Google will accept that whithout loosing page rank.

Peter.

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