We are changing ?page= dynamic url's to /page/ static urls. Will this hurt the progress we have made with the pages using dynamic addresses?

[h3counsel]

Question about changing url from dynamic to static to improve SEO but concern about hurting progress made so far.

[AlanBleiweiss]

Not sure what you mean about hurting progress you've made so far.  If you implement 301 Redirects, and if your new method is based on SEO best practices (in other words not going TOO far with keyword stuffing), and you've got sound content organization, there should be no problem whatever in the switch.

[h3counsel]

Thanks!  What I meant by "hurting progress so far" was that some of these pages are highly ranked and we are trying to improve their ranking further by changing from dynamic (?page=) to static addresses without hurting the ranks--since the whole point is to improve the ranks.