[SOLVED] Converting static website to dynamic one

[rkstevens]

I am in the process of converting a static-design website to a dynamic one. The static site has over 400 pages of content, and has grown past the point of being able to manage it properly. The conversion to a dynamic site should change this, making my life somewhat easier.

 

My concern is this: How do I deal with those 400+ pages being indexed on search engines without losing my page rankings in the conversion process? Even if I implement a 'friendly-url' type of handler in my code, the result still will not be the same as the previous static url.

 

Thanks for your suggestions.

 

[rahul.pache]

After ur dynamic site is created.

 

Let your static pages remain same. Just clear its content and add a redirect PHP script to redirect it to pages's current location.

Like

 

Product1Page [Old page]  => products.php?q=pro1 [new page]

Here is the old page

---------------------------------------------------------

///  Remove all its content

// and add

<?php

header("Location :products.php?q=pro1");

?>

 

 

---------------------------------------------------------

 

 

[laffin]

Look into php's pathinfo system.

if apache has pathinfo enabled u can have a somewhat static url, when actually the url is a php script with parameters in the url without the parameted

 

i.e:

http://my.site.com/articles.php?id=5

 

with path info u can transform it into

 

http://my.site.com/articles.php/5/

 

A popular system which uses this is cake php