Conversion of URL's for Readability

[CMcMullen]

Reading over Rands latest Post about URL structure I had a quick question about the best way to convert URL's that don't have perfect URL structure...

Current the Structure of our E-commerce store has a structure that is not friendly with

domain.com/product/zdcd-jobd3d-fdoh

what is the easiest way to convert these to read URL's without causing any disruptions with the SERP.   Are we talking about a MOD-Rewrite in the CMS.......

[RyanPurkey]

For built pages you'll have to redirect / mod rewrite to get to more readable URLs, but within your CMS there might be ways to change how pages could become more readable when they're first created. You'll have a few steps then...

1. Figure out your naming conventions
2. Implement naming conventions into CMS for all newly created pages
3. Redirect old page to align with new naming conventions

That's the basics of it.

[Christy-Correll]

Hi Chris,

Ryan providing you with a good synopsis of next steps to take. Did it answer your question? If so, please mark it as such. If not, please ask for clarification of the response (or an update if you have already resolved this issue otherwise.) Thanks!

Christy