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I’ve re-done a site for a client which used WP as their CMS. What I want to do is to keep all their old page-links for organic search engines a little while so they aren’t lost.

What’s the best way with the new EE site to keep this?

Let’s say http://www.domain.com/?page=100 should go to http://www.domain.com/new-page

There’s around 50-60 of them.

Thanks.

Easiest way I know would be some .htaccess work…

Just some regular .htaccess redirects could work I guess. Must be the easiest when thinking about it, there’s no good build in functionallity in EE(?)

Something like this, right?

Redirect /?page=100 <a href="http://www.domain.com/new-page">http://www.domain.com/new-page</a>

Maybe a couple easier ways:

http://www.blue-dreamer.co.uk/blog/entry/expressionengine-301-redirects-made-easier
http://erikreagan.com/projects/redirect-helper-lite/ (only for EE1 though).

It gets a bit complex because in order to use template code in EE to do the redirect EE would already need to have the request, which wouldn’t be the case for a wordpress URL.  .htaccess is upstream from EE in the request stream.

Thanks Boyink! 😊