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DebSpecs -> Changing home page to cold fusion (3/6/2007 16:54:11)

We have had a simple HTML home page for 9 years now, which hooks up to an old cold fusion shopping cart. Because our site is so old and well established, we rank on the first page of the major SE's for most keywords. However, we had to upgrade our shopping cart, as it was terribly outdated.

Now, our new webmaster is insisting our homepage be in CF when he launches our new, upgraded site in a few days, but i'm afraid this will wreak havoc to our natural SE placments. It's bad enough for SE's that we changed our entire shopping cart. (He insists because of a cookie problem, which is another story, but has a simple solution)

Should I trust his judgement and just go with it, or continue to be difficult and insist on leaving the format the way it is?



Kitka -> RE: Changing home page to cold fusion (3/6/2007 17:11:12)

If you are hosted on an Apache server, you can use an .htaccess file to redirect your old home page to the new one and keep your SE ranking.



DebSpecs -> RE: Changing home page to cold fusion (3/6/2007 17:20:35)

I believe we are doing this for the pages with new URL's. But the homepage URL will stay the same. Is this still necessary? (I hope this question isn't too dumb. I'm a newbie)[:)]



Kitka -> RE: Changing home page to cold fusion (3/6/2007 17:26:26)

If your current page is named index.html (or similar) and the new home page is named index.cfm (or anything different to the old one) - yes, it would be wise and desirable to do 301 redirects.

If your page is currently index.html and the suffix is not changing, then no, you won't need a redirection.



DebSpecs -> RE: Changing home page to cold fusion (3/6/2007 17:31:15)

thank you so much!



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