i`m worried

[slowhost]

about a month ago i decided to change alot of my websites page`s from

keyword1_keyword2_keyword3

to

keyword1-keyword2-keyword3

its been over a month and the page`s still havent been indexed...

tried submitting them to digg and reddit but still no joy and my home page hasnt been indexed since 16/7/09 any ideas i`m worried...

 

[woopwoop]

are you doing the 301 redirects?
do you have a google webmaster account and have a sitemap listed ith them?

could you have kept all the old pages with the underscores and just have all new pages with hyphens?

Usually if you do the redirects and have a sitemap listed things will work out. I'm not sure how long it takes though. Would guess 4-8 weeks.

 

[slowhost]

i didnt do the redirects as i dont have a clue how to do it..

i have both a xml and html sitemaps... i`ve submitted the new xml in my webmaster tools...

i`m looking everyday but no joy...

 

[tifosi]

Try something like this in the root .htaccess

Rewrite underscores to hyphens for SEO URL

google 'underscore to hyphen redirect htaccess'

S

 

[woopwoop]

For 301 redirects you'd create a file called ".htaccess" in your root of your website. In there put something like:

Redirect 301 /article/key1_key2.php /article/key1-key2.php


You would either need to do this on several lines for each redirect. Depending on how many pages this wcould take a while. Or you may be able to do some other modrewrite automated way - but I'm not sure.

 

[dashu1]

you have to remove the old keyword_keyword pages & put a 301 redirect from them to the new keyword-keyword pages, otherwise it's going to cause you problems.

If you really can't do the 301's then create a robots.txt file that blocks the old pages.

 

[ddwebguru]

Do you submit your new url to the search engines. You can try this if nothing happens after redirecting it.

 

[Skinner]

the above link by tifosi will do the job nicely, and it allows for upto 7 keywords, and its common sense how go expand it to 10-15 keywords or how many you have without having to do them one by one.

My RegEx is truely shocking but SquareRobot seems capable to he may see this

Here's the bit you need in the .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule !\.(html|php)$ - [S=6]
RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_(.*)$ $1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6-$7 [E=underscores:Yes]
RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_(.*)$ $1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6 [E=underscores:Yes]
RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_(.*)$ $1-$2-$3-$4-$5 [E=underscores:Yes]
RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)_([^_]*)_(.*)$ $1-$2-$3-$4 [E=underscores:Yes]
RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_([^_]*)_(.*)$ $1-$2-$3 [E=underscores:Yes]
RewriteRule ^([^_]*)_(.*)$ $1-$2 [E=underscores:Yes]

RewriteCond %{ENV:underscores} ^Yes$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.askapache.com/$1 [R=301,L]