I would suggest making indexable pages for courses, the rest of the parameters are rather user orientated and - I think - not usefull for SEO. This means separating the search script with browse pages.

This means making find-a-recipe.php, which looks like the search engine, forbidden to robots. Instead, you should have a category browser, using only the course (I suppose no recipe have multiple courses ?). You would have url like :

/recipes/ => all recipes, paginated

/recipes/start/ => all starter recipes, paginated

/recipes/starter/fry/ => fried starter recipes, but you should check the search volume of those expression, like "fried starter recipes". If you have a very small volume of recipes, wait until every subpages of /recipes/starter/ have at least 5 recipes.

The goal here is to make your recipe pages easy to index, with a strong focus on the course type. Although the course may not be the best root category for recipe, this should be a good way to may your site seo friendly.

To be clear about the different roles of the files in my solution, the .htaccess file will redirect every old url (whatever the id is) to a redirect script written in php.

This script will get the old url Id, load the article (to get the article name) and then redirect 301 to the new url. Only in php can you access the database.

Damien gave another solution, only based on htaccess. You have to write (or generate with code / software) 800 redirect directive for the htaccess file.

Hi mozllo,

You won't be able to create a .htaccess for such urls, because the original url only has the ID of the article and you want the name of the article in the new url. This requires database access to know the new url.

I would suggest to put in your htaccess file :

RewriteRule ^home/newscotnent.asp?id=([0-9]+) redirect.php?id=$1 [L]

Edit : see good rule below

The redirect.php file will load the article (or category as I understood) and do a 301 to the new url.

As you have only 800 urls, I agree with Damien, you should generate an associative array in pure php, associating every ID with the new url.

The redirect script will only test if the ID is an array key, if it is you 301 to the new url. Otherwise, display a 404 page.

Depends on the price, if it is affordable you should buy it and work on it to get the reputation back, even if it takes time.

If you want to make visits ASAP, I wouldn't recommend to buy a banned domain.