HI
I wonder if you can help me. I have two websites which are set up with exactly the same settings in sh404sef. I am looking to close down website 1 (www.xxxx.com) and transfer about 20 high ranking articles to website 2 (www.xxxx.com). I will then do 301 redirects from website 1 to website 2 for these 20 articles.
When I add the 20 articles to website 2, I want to try and keep the url structure the same (apart from the domain name). One issue I have is that the urls for the two websites are structured slightly differenty (which is strange because I have double-checked the configuration settings in sh404sef for both sites and they are the same). The issue is for Website 2 the Main menu link text is being inserted into the URL, but not on Website 1. So for example:
Website 1 urls: http://www.xxxx.com/best-festivals-south-france/mare-di-moda.html is an article stored in Category "South France tourism" and the sub-category "Best festivals South France". To get to this article it is found by clicking on the Main Menu item "France tourism" and sub-menu item link "Best festivals in South France". So basically it is quite a clean url, with none of the menu links or the Parent Category being inserted into the URL.
However, on website 2, the URLs are a bit of a mess. So for example, a similar article which is linked from a sub-Main menu link looks like this:
http://www.xxxx.com/markets-festivals/languedoc-markets-festivals/languedoc-festivals-festival-avignon.html
What is happening here is that "markets-festivals" is the title of the sub-menu link and "languedoc-markets-festivals" is the title of the content sub-category. So the Main Menu link text is being inserted into the URL. This is not ideal, but I do not want to disturb the URLs on Website 2 by changing the configuration settings.
What I want to do is to transfer across these 20 articles and then create custom URLs. However, given that I will be using 301 redirects from website 1 to website 2 anyway, I don't want to add in a second 301 redirect to a cleaner URL. Is it possible to create a custom url on website 2 for these 20 articles which will always be stored in the database and not wiped out if I have to purge the URLs at any time in the future?
I hope that you can help
regards
Iain Laverock
I wonder if you can help me. I have two websites which are set up with exactly the same settings in sh404sef. I am looking to close down website 1 (www.xxxx.com) and transfer about 20 high ranking articles to website 2 (www.xxxx.com). I will then do 301 redirects from website 1 to website 2 for these 20 articles.
When I add the 20 articles to website 2, I want to try and keep the url structure the same (apart from the domain name). One issue I have is that the urls for the two websites are structured slightly differenty (which is strange because I have double-checked the configuration settings in sh404sef for both sites and they are the same). The issue is for Website 2 the Main menu link text is being inserted into the URL, but not on Website 1. So for example:
Website 1 urls: http://www.xxxx.com/best-festivals-south-france/mare-di-moda.html is an article stored in Category "South France tourism" and the sub-category "Best festivals South France". To get to this article it is found by clicking on the Main Menu item "France tourism" and sub-menu item link "Best festivals in South France". So basically it is quite a clean url, with none of the menu links or the Parent Category being inserted into the URL.
However, on website 2, the URLs are a bit of a mess. So for example, a similar article which is linked from a sub-Main menu link looks like this:
http://www.xxxx.com/markets-festivals/languedoc-markets-festivals/languedoc-festivals-festival-avignon.html
What is happening here is that "markets-festivals" is the title of the sub-menu link and "languedoc-markets-festivals" is the title of the content sub-category. So the Main Menu link text is being inserted into the URL. This is not ideal, but I do not want to disturb the URLs on Website 2 by changing the configuration settings.
What I want to do is to transfer across these 20 articles and then create custom URLs. However, given that I will be using 301 redirects from website 1 to website 2 anyway, I don't want to add in a second 301 redirect to a cleaner URL. Is it possible to create a custom url on website 2 for these 20 articles which will always be stored in the database and not wiped out if I have to purge the URLs at any time in the future?
I hope that you can help
regards
Iain Laverock