My urls changed with new CMS now search engines see pages as 302s what do I do?

[rasiadmin1]

We recently changed our CMS from php to .NET. The old CMS did not allow for folder structure in urls so every url was www.mydomain/name-of-page.

In the new CMS we either have to have .aspx at the end of the url or a /. We opted for the /, but now my page rank is dead and Google webmaster tools says my existing links are now going through an intermediary page. Everything resolves to the right place, but looks like spiders see our new pages as being 302 redirected.

Example of what's happening.

Old page: www.mydomain/name-of-page

New page: www.mydomain/name-of-page/

What should I do? Should I go in and 301 redirect the old pages? Will this get cleared up by itself in time?

[Entrusteddev]

I assume you have used some kind of rewrite on the server to change URLS to / rather than .aspx. This could be utilising some kind of redirect to move traffic from .aspx to /.

Firstly, I'd check how the URLs are rewritten (if they are), Unfortuntaley my knowledge of windows server configs is limited, however in Linux I'd be checking my HT Access file and the redirect/rewrite rules.

Once you have ascertained how the redirect us happening and solve the issue, then i'd implement the correct 301 redirects.

I'd like to ask why you opted for name-of-page/ rather than name-of-page.aspx?