08 Oct 2012
I thought I’d write up something I did at work today, in case it’s useful to other “webmasters”.
We have a site which, through evolution, history and multiple editors, has ended up with a cluttered URL space. It happens.
This is a worthwhile thing to do for tidiness, to enable future redesigns, and to ensure good navigation (and hence Googlability). I was keen to do it in a way that maintained existing links, and in a way which would preserve search engines' knowledge of our pages.
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