Can changing dynamic url of over 2000 pages site after a year will change its ranking
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Hi-
Have built site in joomla
The urls are dynamic in nature with over a year - all pages are well indexed and backlinks been built over with these dynamic urls
Need to know
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if i hire an agency to change over dynamic url to static url of these 2000 pages - will it also change all Search engine ranking positions of existing urls
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Will all the seo effort and backlinks build over 15 months will still hold valid or this will just back to square one due to change of urls
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is it advisable to get the url changed from dynamic to static one - especially when site is receiving over 75,000 visitors every month
Thanks in advance. Look for expert suggestions
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Building on what LankaHQ said:
- if i hire an agency to change over dynamic url to static url of these 2000 pages - will it also change all Search engine ranking positions of existing urls
Yes, but probably not much. 95-99% should stay the same.
- Will all the seo effort and backlinks build over 15 months will still hold valid or this will just back to square one due to change of urls
Since you will implement the 301's the link juice should pass to the new page (although typically not 100% of it).
- is it advisable to get the url changed from dynamic to static one - especially when site is receiving over 75,000 visitors every month
The static urls will probably get a higher ctr than the dynamic. Also, could get you ranked higher based on the new url string and how it matches to a query.
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Hi,
If your site have indexed well and ranking well in search engines for your targeting keywords, there is no problem your urls are dynamic or static.
But keyword rich static url is a high value factor in modern seo. Even if it is OK for now maybe static url will be helpful in future and also when you will have a competitor.
So if you need to change those to static urls you may have a process to redirect the old urls via a 301 permanent redirection.
As an example if some one typed the old url http://www.yoursite.com/oldpage.php it must redirect to your new url http://www.yoursite.com/new-page and it must be via 301 redirection. it is very very important.
And one another thing. As I know this will pass your old url's link juice 99% to your new urls. But not 100%
Regrads
Prasad
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