View James Kirk Pace's profile on LinkedIn

Recent Comments

Archives

Affiliates

Blogroll

Research

Shipping Service

Apr
23

Checklist for Changing Your URL Structure | SEO.com

By

Checklist for Changing Your URL Structure

Dan Patterson,  April 22, 2010

Change URL StructureIn SEO there are a lot of little things we can tweak to help a site rank better. This includes improving a site’s URL structure by making it more SEO friendly. The problem is, if you do this incorrectly your rankings could drop significantly and it could take a long time to make a full recovery.

Use the checklist below to first make sure it’s worth it to change your URL structure. If you decide it is, the rest of the checklist will help you to make sure you update everything you should. This will help to reduce your ranking drops (or at least the length of time those drops last).

Make Sure You Are Actually Changing to Something Better

Sometimes it is a good idea to change your URL structure, but sometimes you’re better off leaving things alone. Here are some examples of when it might be a good idea:

…more…

via Checklist for Changing Your URL Structure | SEO.com.

Categories : SEO & Keywords

Comments

  1. Tiara Colasamte says:
    2010/11/07 at 1444

    Thanks a lot for this constructive info. Please keep up the neat work. I’ll be returning often.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

All Pages

All Categories

Tags

1 affiliate books cables christmas computer connection connectors drop shipping ebay ebay books ecommerce editing environment evaluate facebook firefox football free software service Fun Stuff google google placement google search green holidays imaging information international sales inventory listing mailing mail tracking management Marketing MS Office pc PSM research sell books seo shipping social media time management twitter youtube

RSS Terapeak

RSS eBay Ink Blog

Run Drama Run



Run Drama Run

RSS Google Small Business Blog

  • Connect with Googlers and users in our Google+ Help Desk Hangouts 2012/02/03
    There’s nothing quite like talking to your customers face to face—being able to hear their feedback and questions directly, and strengthening those relationships. A message we come back to again and again on the Small Business Blog is the importance of connecting with and understanding your customers, whether you’re a small business or a company as large as […]
    SMB Alias
  • Tell your business story with Google+ Pages 2012/02/01
    When we launched Google+ Pages last November, we saw more than a million businesses create new profiles to better connect with their customers. Page owners have been hosting Hangouts, updating their customers on the latest news and deals, and sharing exclusive photos and videos. We’ve loved the creativity and wanted to share what some business owners have be […]
    SMB Alias
  • Welcome customers into your business on Google 2012/01/26
    (Cross-posted on the Lat Long Blog.) When we initially announced the Business Photos pilot program, we wanted to give business owners an easy way to get customers in the door online using interactive, high-quality, 360-degree images of places on Google Maps and on Google Search results. With thousands of businesses under our belt — from salons to gift shops  […]
    Vanessa Schneider
  • Limber and flexible IT: YogaWorks goes Google 2012/01/13
    (Cross posted from the Google Enterprise Blog)Editor’s note: Today’s guest blogger is Jay DeCoons, COO of YogaWorks. Renowned for its excellence in classroom instruction and teacher training, YogaWorks delivers yoga training and classes in 60 cities around the world. Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map.At YogaWorks […]
    SMB Alias

RSS eBay Tech Blog

  • BitTorrent for Package Distribution in the Enterprise 2012/01/31
    eBay has been exploring the potential benefits of incorporating peer-to-peer transport technologies into our network topology. We’ve begun to use BitTorrent for index distribution, and we’ll soon use it for build distribution as well. In this post, we discuss our experience with BitTorrent and the problem of package distribution within the enterprise environ […]
    Mahesh Somani
  • Rapid Development Setup in Large Environments, part II 2012/01/03
    In the first part of this blog post, we outlined the problem of rapid development setup as well as the approaches that we have used at eBay to address the problem. We will now describe how we set up projects in the Eclipse IDE, which is well adopted at eBay for Java applications. Let’s start […]
    Suresh Mathew
  • Rapid Development Setup in Large Environments 2011/12/15
    Large development teams with a sizable code base have two conflicting needs: code sharing and rapid developer setup (agility). Teams who are working on different features need to modify common projects and source elements. While code ownership helps, members of the same team invariably need to touch the same components across different features – or […]
    Mahesh Somani