When I took over a website, I left most of the filenames as the old webmaster had them. But, I was looking through Google Webmaster Tools' reports for my site and saw what is being picked up by keywords and feel I should re-name some of those old pages. For example, one file was named: epkrnmap so the contents aren't easily understood as being "east_pike_run_township_map" I know my filenames would be longer, but I think changing them now would make it easier for visitors to find the atlas / township maps. I thought I could re-name each one to its true name and upload those as new pages. Should I leave the old files/filenames/pages online for a few months until the new_name_files get indexed into Google? Or will that be read as duplicate content/dup pages? What is the best way to handle this issue? Judy

Judy, I had to move pages recently and was in a similar situation. Should I move them and break bookmarks? I left the original pages where they were but made new ones, with new names and placed the new ones in new directories. On the old pages, I put a notice that the page had moved, a link to the new page and created a meta tag redirect to automatically forward the old page to the new one in 10 secs. If your pages have been indexed, you certainly don't want to lose that. Possibly a redirect will work. Lorrie On 01/05/11 15:49, J.A. Florian wrote: > When I took over a website, I left most of the filenames as the old > webmaster had them. But, I was looking through Google Webmaster Tools' > reports for my site and saw what is being picked up by keywords and feel I > should re-name some of those old pages. > > For example, one file was named: epkrnmap so the contents aren't easily > understood as being "east_pike_run_township_map" > > I know my filenames would be longer, but I think changing them now would > make it easier for visitors to find the atlas / township maps. > > I thought I could re-name each one to its true name and upload those as new > pages. > > Should I leave the old files/filenames/pages online for a few months until > the new_name_files get indexed into Google? Or will that be read as > duplicate content/dup pages? > > What is the best way to handle this issue? > > Judy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >