Platform Migration Challenge

[Prime85]

Our website is running on a 2004 Microsoft Access DB and it’s time to ditch it…

We have a new site created using .php with a sql DB.

How can we maintain the back links and general goodwill created over time?

Example… how do we redirect something like

http://www.simplastics.com/details.asp?subcat=35917617&itm=2916 to

http://www.simplastics.com/30240  <--- (new address will look like this)

thanks

[AlanMosley]

You need to 301 redirect your links. i dont like your new urls though, using numbers does not help SEO.

If you have an IIS server these things are easy to do.

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/microsoft-technologies-and-seo-web-development

http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials

[Prime85]

Thanks for the insight...

Simplastics.com currently runs on IIS, however, the new site will run on a Linux based server with PHP and SQL db.

As for the 30240 trailer (LOL) unfortunately that is a misguided application of part numbers by a particular manufacturer (we don't like it either as it spiders like a zip code instead of a part number).

The new site utilizes a Magento shopping cart so we're committed to Linux.

Considering the migration to a new platform, what would be your recommendation?