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Gotcha. Try adding the rewriteengine on line directly above those two rules. That has to be present to trigger the mod_rewrite module. Hopefully that will solve the issue.

Well, that's no fun. If there is already a line to initiate the rewrite engine, that 2nd 'rewriteengine on' reference could be a problem. I assume you took that out?

Hi Daniel - Are you using htaccess to handle your redirects.  I think you'll need to employ some Regular Expressions to handle what you're trying to accomplish.  As a guide, here is a very nice writeup on RegEx from - where else - SEOmoz: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/an-seos-guide-to-regex

so, in this case, i think what you'll want is:

RewriteEngine On

**RewriteRule ^widgets/?$ reviews/widgets [NC]**so, the caret (^) ensures that the url starts with widgets, while the dollar sign ensures that the redirect rule stops there (eliminating that pesky problem you encountered with the review pages also getting redirected).  The ? just means that the trailing slash is optional.Hope that helps.  If this solution isn't feasible, you could always hedge with rel="canonical" on the mydomain.com/widgets page and have that point to the proper page.  That will at least help with Google.-Jason

Agree with Ryan - it sounds like Wordpress.org would be the right fit.  I've used that on some personal sites and I've worked with Drupal on larger corporate sites.  You would definitely need someone with intermediate, or higher, development skills to use a platform such as Drupal.

There are any number of plugins that you could use for Wordpress that will help manage key SEO fundamentals.  I've found All In One SEO to be a pretty decent Wordpress plugin, FWIW.  Good luck!

Hi Daniel - Are you using htaccess to handle your redirects.  I think you'll need to employ some Regular Expressions to handle what you're trying to accomplish.  As a guide, here is a very nice writeup on RegEx from - where else - SEOmoz: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/an-seos-guide-to-regex

so, in this case, i think what you'll want is:

RewriteEngine On

**RewriteRule ^widgets/?$ reviews/widgets [NC]**so, the caret (^) ensures that the url starts with widgets, while the dollar sign ensures that the redirect rule stops there (eliminating that pesky problem you encountered with the review pages also getting redirected).  The ? just means that the trailing slash is optional.Hope that helps.  If this solution isn't feasible, you could always hedge with rel="canonical" on the mydomain.com/widgets page and have that point to the proper page.  That will at least help with Google.-Jason

Agree with Ryan - it sounds like Wordpress.org would be the right fit.  I've used that on some personal sites and I've worked with Drupal on larger corporate sites.  You would definitely need someone with intermediate, or higher, development skills to use a platform such as Drupal.

There are any number of plugins that you could use for Wordpress that will help manage key SEO fundamentals.  I've found All In One SEO to be a pretty decent Wordpress plugin, FWIW.  Good luck!