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How To Form URLs For SEO?

by goindeep
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My page urls for the video content end with: XXX.XXXXX.com/review.php?id=173

Im getting this all changed to display the video titles for SEO purpose.

Will this effect all of my current seo/backlinks?
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  • Profile picture of the author goindeep
    And just while, im at it.

    Do i even need to form the URLS the way im planning to?

    I just did little research and im finding conflicting ideas>>>?
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  • Profile picture of the author zoobie
    if you want to move domain, use a 301 permanent redirect.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicktyler
    If your changing the form of a static url then it will affect your backlinks if the origional link no longer exists. You should redirect all your old Url's to the new Url with the same content.

    the way you are planning to write the Url's should be fine for SEO and give you some benefit but you sould also take out the ?id=173 bit or cannonicalise it or something.
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    • Profile picture of the author goindeep
      Originally Posted by nicktyler View Post

      If your changing the form of a static url then it will affect your backlinks if the origional link no longer exists. You should redirect all your old Url's to the new Url with the same content.

      the way you are planning to write the Url's should be fine for SEO and give you some benefit but you sould also take out the ?id=173 bit or cannonicalise it or something.
      Thats exactly what im asking.

      Thanks.

      How would i go about doing that?
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  • Profile picture of the author nicktyler
    You should 301 all your old links to their respective new optimised links.

    Removing the id parameter might be a bit harder but you can use the canonical tag on each page to tell the engines to ignore it. You can, or you can ask your host to, create a single 301 redirect which converts all urls such as this:
    XXX.XXXXX.com/review.php?id=173

    to:
    XXX.XXXXX.com/review.php

    as that page will exist and be the same.

    I had a problem with parameters like this causing duplicate content issues. I'm not a developer and quite new to that side of things so not an expert in the implementation of these things. There are also options to add rewrites to your htaccess file but again I'm no expert on this.
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