Upgrade and SE Ranking

[M. Smith]

I read in another post that someone lost their Search Engine ranking after upgrading to 5.1.4 and had to start from scratch. Has this happened to anyone else? I'm wanting to upgrade (currently still using v.4), but I'm very concerned about this. Any thoughts?

[Dirty Butter]

It is likely you will lose your SEO rank IF the new seo urls are different in your upgrade from what you currently have. I don't know enough to know if this can be avoided by some specific additions to the .htaccess code or not. Hopefully someone knowledgeable will be along soon to guide you on this.

PS: Please create your sig.

[M. Smith]

Signature created, thanks! :-D

[SimChris]

make a note of your original URLs when upgrading or changing your version, if you change URLs.

 

you will need to make 301 redirects in your .htaccess file pointing old page to new page (if applicable to you).

 

Doesn't hurt  to register with Google Webmaster tools, and submit your sitemap, too.

 

A 301 looks like this

 

Redirect 301 /store/original-store-page-item1345/ https://www.your-store.xyz/store/new-store-page-without-item-number*

 

*THESE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY

[viren]

Hi Sim,

 

I recently upgraded my CC3 to CC5 and added 301 redirect rule as you suggested, but these are not working. can you please look into htaccess below and let me know what I am doing wrong,

 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>  
 
  RewriteEngine On
 
  redirect 301 /mainspressure/ http://www.hotwatercylinder.co.nz/mains-pressure.html
  redirect 301 solar-/-wetback/superheat/superheat-wetback http://www.hotwatercylinder.co.nz/superheat-nz.html
 
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hotwatercylinder.co.nz [NC]
  RewriteRule (.*) http://www.hotwatercylinder.co.nz/$1 [L]  
 
   ErrorDocument 404 http://www.hotwatercylinder.co.nz/index.php?_a=document&doc_id=28
   ErrorDocument 301 http://www.hotwatercylinder.co.nz/index.php?_a=document&doc_id=28  
 
  RewriteRule ^sitemap.html$ index.php?_a=plugin&plugin=sitemap [L]

  ######## START v4 SEO URL BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY ########
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*)$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule cat_([0-9]+)(.[a-z]{3,4})?(.*)$    index.php?_a=category&cat_id=$1&%1 [NC]

 

[DanaKuperr]

I recently did, too 301 redirect  on its website. Everything turned out. I'm going to do right now is on web application development services.