How to move my site within the same domain

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How to move my site within the same domain

impact

1:28 am on Feb 25, 2010 (gmt 0)

Hello,

We are in the process of redesigning our site. The old site was here:
www.domain.com/index.html
www.domain.com/products/product-name.html
www.domain.com/corporate/disclaimer.html

The new site will be hosted
www.domain.com/en/comapny-name.html
www.domain.com/en/products/organic/product-name.html
www.domain.com/en/disclaimer.html

Well, the addition of "en" is not very significant at the moment but we just thought we may make our sites in other languages too.

Our old site has been around for year or so. As I am new to SEO, can any one please tell me how do I move my site in the best SEO way?

Thank you.

bill

4:34 am on Feb 25, 2010 (gmt 0)

Bad idea.
Cool URIs don't change [w3.org]. You're going to impact your rankings with that move, and there are better ways to do multiple languages.
For example, local domains would give you a boost in local language markets:

example.com
example.jp
example.cn
example.es
example.fr

That would allow you to keep the established pages of your site at their current locations and allow you to branch out into other markets.

impact

1:58 pm on Feb 25, 2010 (gmt 0)

Hi,
Thanks for the info but For SEO point I want to move this

www.domain.com/products/product-name.html
to
www.domain.com/en/products/organic/product-name.html

how do I do it? any idea?

bill

5:38 am on Feb 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

A 301 Redirect [bing.com].

seppeke

5:39 pm on Feb 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

whatif you work with Registrar X?

[edited by: bill at 3:53 am (utc) on Feb 28, 2010]
[edit reason] No need to mention specific registrars [/edit]

bill

3:00 am on Feb 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

Welcome to WebmasterWorld seppeke.

301 redirects are done on the web server, not the at the registrar.