Special characters in URL

[objectif-mars]

Hello everybody,

my question focus on special parameters in URL. I i am working for a website that use a lot of special entities in their URLS. For instance:

www.mydomain.com/mykeyword1-mykeyword2%2C-1%2Cpage1.html

I am about to make 301 redirect rules for all these urls to clean ones. IE:

www.mydomain.com/mykeyword1-mykeyword2%2C-1%2Cpage1
would become:
www.mydomain.com/mykeyword1-mykeyword.html

I just wanted to know if anybody has already done this kind of "cleanup" and if i could expect a positive boost or not.

Thanks

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[Francisco_Meza]

If it's an ecommerce site, then 301s may take forever. I agree with Shaun about the mod_rewrites.

[objectif-mars]

Thanks for your answers,
Yes, i will use a regex because it is much simpler to make one rule for thousands of URLs than to have one specific rule for each URL.