Hello all,
I wanted to see if anyone had an experience with SEO issues when converting sites to Drupal. I converted a site last year and although permanent redirects are not supposed to effect one's rankings, I have some fairly strong circumstantial evidence that they can. For that site we had to remove .html from the end of the URLs as in site.com/page.html to site.com/page . Perhaps redirected links don't factor well in Google, they say it should have no effect, I really don't know, but the site was lost in the wilderness for over a year and is just now coming back a bit. I don't think it was a coincidence as all other things remained equal as far as I know. Although I am very happy with the flexibility of the new Drupal site, losing my rankings really did some major damage to the business.
Well, I'm now ready to convert my last Joomla site to Drupal (and say goodbye to Joomla forever) but I'm a bit nervous about it. This site is in the top three for nearly all my target keywords and #1 in many so I'm worried about doing this. The one good thing is that the most important pages for this particular site end in back slashes as in site.com/category/ and for Drupal they would obviously be just site.com/category so I'm hoping just a / won't make a difference in Google... but I just really don't know.
Does anyone have an experience with issues caused by removing the / from a URL? Alternatively, is there a way to force Drupal URLs to carry a / or even an .html so that I can change the URLs one at a time and monitor the results?
Thanks...
