Moving an entire site (ASP to ASP.NET)

[botMan]

I came across a client who is thinking of upgrading from .asp to asp.net . They have descent PR and traffic that they don't want to loose. From my understanding .net extensions are .aspx as opposed to .asp. How does one keep from loosing all current rankings, traffic, etc? 301 redirect? Mod-rewrites? Please, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[thegypsy]

I came across a client who is thinking of upgrading from .asp to asp.net . They have descent PR and traffic that they don't want to loose. From my understanding .net extensions are .aspx as opposed to .asp. How does one keep from loosing all current rankings, traffic, etc? 301 redirect? Mod-rewrites? Please, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Either way...301 redirect or modrewrites will do the trick. It is HIGHLY likely that they will lose some rankings for a few weeks though so don't panic. As for PR.... well, they may never again update that beast... so who cares... that should stay the same.

[incrediblehelp]

Check out this thread for 301 redirection help (http://www.jaankanellis.com/301-redirection-help/). Make sure you definitely implement 301 redirects from the old URLs to the new.

[botMan]

thanks so much for the suggestions. Is there a way to redirect over 350 urls in IIS like its done in an .htaccess file:

redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm
redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm
redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm
redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm

i haven't found anything through the links you provided in your post