Dear Drupal Experts,
I am relatively new to drupal. I am in the process of migrting my site to drupal. The thing is My existing HTML site has got many pages indexed and ranked very well in google. To make sure I do not lose ranking and trafiic from those pages I am using the PATH module to force same URLS in Drupal pages/nodes.
Now here is the problem,
My actual HTML page urls had spaces in them...
ex. http://www.Mydomain.com/Videos/[Tutorial] How to use shutdown command (VIsual Basic .NET).html
Now, I see Google has cached my page as below ( as u can see it added some % 20 etc in the url)
http://www.MyDomain.com/Videos/[Tutorial]%20How%20to%20use%20shutdown%20...(VIsual%20Basic%20.NET).html
Now, when I give the same url (with the % 20 etc) in the URL PATH settings of the Drupal pages, Drupal does it own thing and the final url of the page becomes...
http://www.vgurgaon.com/Videos/[Tutorial]+How+to+use+shutdown+command+(VIsual+Basic+.NET).html
If this is the way it happens, I am afraid I might lose all my rakings in google and the hardwork that I did.
Can any one of you please help? I would be okay to pay in case required.
Many Thanks
Ankur
Comments
Errata
Please consider the last URL as
http://www.mydomain.com/Videos/[Tutorial]+How+to+use+shutdown+command+(VIsual+Basic+.NET).html
You can use URL aliases
Hello,
You can use URL aliases to create the way you want them.
I think if you use hyphens
I think if you use hyphens in place of the spaces %20 Google will treat them the same. You can also redirect.