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Hi Paul, As Andy mentioned earlier, the complexity here comes by the fact that these IDs cannot be simply removed since they play a role in the Magento product/category system. The first step would be that you identify how these are generated to identify the best way to optimize it to become relevant or at least doesn't add more depth and complexity in the URL structure. I've seen that there's a URL rewrite area in Magento with some system configuration options that you might want to take a look here and to this in-depth guide explaining Magento URL rewrites. I've also seen that a similar question has been asked in Stackoverflow and as you can see the potential alternatives discussed here goes into Magento's system configuration. Hope this helps! Aleyda

Hi Matt, Maybe you can help me with this one too, as it may be similar?? I have a series of folders that are in the structure: c/123456/bags.html   (the "123456" can be any series of 6 digit numbers), and the "bags.html" can be any product I need that to be 301 redirected to: /default/bags/bags.html Thanks, Paul

Hi Vac, send me a private message and in m y free time I'll be glad to help you, if I can condense the redirects in just one or two rules I'll definitely do that. However I think you don't have to redirect all your 404s. (further reading here) It's natural for a site to have 404s you need to redirect only pages which are actually going elsewhere (as the redirect term indicates), for expired content or not available pages, you'll better create a customized 404 page to help UX on your site.

the bit up to /account/login/ can be kept. The remainder after that is not relevant Or unique. can you point me to what I need to search to work it out?

Awesome. Thanks

Google will continue to crawl your old URLs as long as links to them exist, so you will want to keep those 301s in place for as long as those links exist. Does that make sense? It's not that Google will crawl a URL, see that it is being 301'd and never crawl that URL, Google will continuously crawl that URL as long as it is being linked to, and you need to have the 301 in place to tell Google that the page has moved.

Hey Charles, Thanks for the quick reply. I just had a quick dig through them and there seems to be thousands of the following: http://www.????.com.au/default/customer/account/login/referer/aHR0cDovL3d3dy52YWNiYW Not sure, but I guess this is due to us having 25,000 customer on the old system. We didn't import the customer details, so not sure how SEOMOZ scan is picking these up? Do you think they are a issue?