Moving to new platform
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I am moving a site with great SEO and tons of pages to a new platform. Page names will all be different because they will not have the .html ending and names will change. It is on a system that does not support .htaccess.
So, I don't have a way to do 301 redirects.
How can I keep my competitive status?
Thank you!!
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If it's a system that doesn't support .htaccess, it's likely IIS as Kevin said. That said, when you say:
So, I don't have a way to do 301 redirects.
... This makes me wonder if it's not IIS (as 301s are possible with IIS, just in a different way, as Kevin outlines). It'd be good to confirm what your hosting environment is either way though, as it'd be hard for anyone to give a decent answer without knowing this.
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IIS? If so there is a way of doing that as well. Some good tutorials out there. Should be a simple way of doing it if the pages are the same - the html. Sorry--not well versed in IIS. I strongly recommend getting this done prior to launch to maintain those rankings as best as possible.
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