Moving a site and pages will have different names

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Post February 11th, 2011, 12:19 am

I'm moving a site and pages will have different names - -what do I need to do not to loose google traffic?
how can i search for a list of pages? and do I need a 301 redirect to the new page?
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Post February 11th, 2011, 12:19 am

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Post February 12th, 2011, 9:20 am

Yes, you need to maintain a mapping of old-to-new and send 301 redirects pointing all requests for the old addresses to the new addresses.

How you will do this depends entirely on your current and future setups.
Strong with this one, the sudo is.

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