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By ianguest - Mon 3 Jun 2013
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Iam currently investigating upgrading our current website currently runningCactushop to the latest version of Kartris.
Asthe current shop has been active for many years, I need to ensure that the URLnames are the same between the two platforms. This should stop the requirementof generating URL redirects and any Google errors encountered on the way.
Isit possible in Kartris v2 to use the same URL product address as the original productlisting in Cactushop?
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By Paul - Mon 3 Jun 2013
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You could use URL rewriting rules in the web.config to handle this. But I think it's better to do a 301-redirect. This should not have any negative impact on Google - you're just telling it that page has moved.
You can write 301-redirects in the web config.
Note that if you upgrade with the data tool, IDs of products, categories and pages will be the same.
So if you can extract the product ID from the incoming URL (e.g. 999), then you can 301 redirect to:
/Product.aspx?ProductID=999
If you have seo friendly URLs turned on, this unfriendly one will still work, but the canonical tag inside the page will have the friendly URL, so that tells Google the preferred URL.
As long as you can pick up search engine links to 'old' pages, and get them to the equivalent 'new' page in Kartris, and send a 301 signal for Google to understand the page URL has changed, then you should see no noticeable change in SE performance.
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By Neil - Fri 7 Jun 2013
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I just moved a Catushop site to Kartris and Google were impressively quick at indexing the new site. I created a new sitemap in Kartris, configured it in webmasters tools, and ~95% of the new url's were indexed within 2 days.
I am not saying you shouldn't think about redirects but within a few days they would have sorted out the indexing anyway.
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