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So i was going through and changing the names on some of my products. Then i was going through and doing all my ISAPI rewirtes in my httpd.ini so it wont affect my search engine links. I noticed that when i change my product name, as long as I have the product ID and the "___" before it, the link still works. For example, here is a product Old Name and Link: <SPAN id=Anthem_ctl00_MainContentHolder_lblName__><SPAN id=ctl00_MainContentHolder_lblName>Bionet CardioCare 2000 3 Channel EKG http://www.medsupplier.com/Products/Bionet-CardioCare-2000-3-Channel-EKG__0811-2000.aspx New Name and Link: <SPAN id=Anthem_ctl00_MainContentHolder_lblName__><SPAN id=ctl00_MainContentHolder_lblName>Bionet CardioCare 2000 EKG [color=#6c2e19> [/url]
The old link still works!?!?!!!
Even this works:
[url=http://www.medsupplier.com/Products/asdflkhzsdflkj__0811-2000.aspx]http://www.medsupplier.com/Products/[color=#990000>asdflkhzsdflkj</FONT>__0811-2000.aspx As]__0811-2000 [/color][color=black>which] [/color] <FONT color=black>Dumb question: So do i still have to create my ISAPI rewirtes to go from the old link to the new link if only the product name changes? I've done a few, including the old link above and it wont even change to the new one. it still stays on the old link even though there is a ISAPI rewrite for it...
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It really shouldn't work that way. Yes, you need to do the redirects. Otherwise the search engines will see two different pages on your site that are identical. Also, the value of the old URL will not be passed on to the new URL. |
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so anything will work before "___"...?
[url=http://www.medsupplier.com/Products/Bionet-CardioCare-2000-EKG__0811-2000.aspx][/url]
I guess im a bit confused. Even if i create my rewrite in my httpd.ini file, it stays on the old link. it doesnt rewrite to the new one.
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Bryan,
Yes, anything will work, but only the old URL is actually indexed so I wouldn't worry about it.
Are you doing a redirect or a rewrite? If you do a rewrite the URL will not change. |
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RewriteRule \/Products/Bionet-CardioCare-2000-3-Channel-EKG__0811-2000\.aspx \/Products/Bionet-CardioCare-2000-EKG__0811-2000\.aspx
Im an idiot, i forgot the [I,RP] at the end above. Thats why i was getting confused because the link wasnt changing even though i had a rewrite. works now. Stupid me.
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