oscommerce to prestashop google indexed pages

[bartman]

working on a new design for a site,

The site is an old oscommerce site, but it very well indexed on google and has a good search ranking,

obviously when the site goes live with its new prestashop design, although the main url will remain the same all the old category and products urls are going to change

what is the best way to handle the change.

What I was planning todo is create 301 redirectw from the old oscommerce pages to the new prestashop urls in the .htaccess

Is this the correct way to handle the problem or is their a better soloution

many thanks


Chris

[Maksym]

301 redirect is the best solution imho.
Check this link http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83105&hl=en

Also, if you need to move all your products, customers and/or orders you can use Cart2Cart - shopping cart migration service.

[jeckyl]

Hi,

the best solution is to use 301 but did you know how to wrote only one line to redirect all oscommerce produt to prestashop ?

[cybersteph]

redirect old url oscommerce in the htaccess for every new url presta!
View old url in the google analytic.

[jeckyl]

thnks, but with 900 url i don't want to chek all and its possible to make it with only 1 expression because all url are a same structure

[cybersteph]

in french! i'm french
http://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewthread/49764/discussion_generale/petit_coup_de_pouce_pour_des_301_en_htaccess/

[Maksym]

thnks, but with 900 url i don't want to chek all and its possible to make it with only 1 expression because all url are a same structure

Google Webmaster Tools -> Site configuration -> Change of address

[jeckyl]

Google Webmaster Tools -> Site configuration -> Change of address

Thankds, but it's only if i change my domain name, but i change all files.

[Adwords Oglaševanje]

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^products_id=([0-9]*)$
RewriteRule ^product_info\.php$ http://www.domainname.com/shop/product.php?id_product=%1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^manufacturers_id=[0-9]*&products;_id=([0-9]*)$
RewriteRule ^product_info\.php$ http://www.domainname.com/shop/product.php?id_product=%1 [R=301,L] 

This worked for me. First set is for redirecting http://www.domainname.com/product_info.php?products_id=123 to http://www.domainname.com/shop/product.php?id_product=123

the second is for redirecting http://www.domainname.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=123&products_id=123 to http://www.domainname.com/shop/product.php?id_product=123

leave out "/shop/" in RewriteRule if your shop is not in the "/shop/" subfolder or change if its in another subfolder.

Let me know how that works for you.

Best
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[Adwords Oglaševanje]

in the second set the forum keeps on setting ";" after "products" in product_id, please ignore the ";"