How to keep damage low on Google after the change of URL's

[cemalcebi]

Hi Peeps,

Hope someone can shed a light on this and show a guidance if possible. We are going to move our sites to shopify and shopify's URL's cannot be customized to match exactly like our current URLs. What steps do I need to take so google knows the URL's are changed. Domain will be the same.

Thank you in advanced.

[vmialik]

Hi Cemal,

I found this from Shopify's Knowledgebase:

You can find the Redirect feature in your Navigation tab in the admin, at the bottom of the page.

Redirects are a great way to point old product URLs to your new URLs when migrating from another store or cart service to Shopify. A redirect is defined by the path which accesses it (for example, "/categories/sports/boomerang"), and the target location to which the site visitor is redirected (like "/products/wooden-boomerang").

Note that the following paths cannot be used when redirecting:

• /application
• /cart
• /carts
• /orders
• /shop
• /products
• /services
• NEW also queried URLs can be redirected from, for example: "/store/products.php?=yellow-kite"

Link: http://support.shopify.com/customer/portal/articles/75541-can-i-create-url-redirects-

Let me know if this solves your issue without causing like you said damage. But do remember even redirects can take 30-90 days for successful link juice passing depending on the scope of URL redirects.

[cemalcebi]

This was perfect Vadim, thank you very much for your research, do you recommend any other steps other than redirects. thank you

[vmialik]

Unless others have any input, I believe redirects are the sole method of linking to changed URLs. Search engines seem to be quite happy with them.