Posted on Wednesday, December 13th (7119 days ago)

As I slowly use PHP more than ASP for my site coding, I can’t help but want to redo my own site in PHP.  That of course will kill my search engine rankings since my current urls are things like ‘about.asp’, ‘work.asp’, etc…

The long term plan is to have search engine friendly urls instead, like ‘sitesbyjoe.com/about’ or ‘sitesbyjoe.com/work’.

How to handle the change?  301 Redirects.  Here’s how: 301 Redirects How-To

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About Joseph R. B. Taylor

Joseph R. B. Taylor is a humble designer/developer who makes stuff for screens of all shapes and sizes. He is currently the lead UI/UX Architect at MScience, LLC, where he works to create simple experiences on top of large rich datasets for their customers and clients.