How to re structure a website & Google
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I have a website that requires the site structure to be changed. The website doesnt have many backlnks and rankings are fairly low. I have 11,000 products on the website and want to know the best way to change the site structure without causing 404 errors all over the place. Do I 301 redirect every page? drop all 11,000 pages from the index by adding a no follow no index to all pages?
I have the following structure
www.domain.co.uk/make/model/part/product
I want to change this to
www.domain.co.uk/Part/make/model/product
whats the best way to preserve the SEO, link juice and on a large scale? 11,000 pages.
thank you
shivun
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