How many of my linked pages should I redirect (301's)
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I'm moving my store to a new site and will have a much friendlier but completely different URL structure.
I used Open Site Explorer to find inbound links to 513 pages and have done about half so far.
The remaining pages have one link each at a page authority of 27 or less - but there are still 250+ of them. I have to manually view each old page, search for the product on the new site, and enter the redirect as there is no way to translate old URL's to new ones.
How important is it for rankings to redirect the remaining 250 or so pages?
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Good to hear,
If you redirect on mass to the home page, they will likly be dismissed
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Hi Alan,
Thanks - I'm definitely not redirecting to the home page - to the most relevant current content. It just takes time!
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I wouldnt miss any, but i hope you arent redirecting them all to the home page.
Have a look at the link text and redirect to a page relevant to the link text and linking page, not the old linked page.
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