Page urls in 5.7 vs 5.4

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I am rebuilding a highly (seo) ranked 300+ page website in 5.7, migrating the content from a 5.4.2 site. I do not want to have to use redirects or adversely affect seo in any way. Can the same page url structure be maintained in the new 5.7 site? And a great deal of the images used in the site are indexed by Google images. Can their paths be preserved in the new 5.7 site?
Thanks, John

slojes
 
OKDnet replied on at Permalink Reply
OKDnet
Hi John,

That is a good question I wish I could answer, because you obviously are an example of how this could be very important. While I don't think there is "a way" built in or an add-on, I suspect there are some that could help with some custom work, if you have a sufficient budget (no idea what sufficient would be in this case). I also know of a developer who some time ago mentioned working on an add-on that I believe would do some of this, but I don't know what became of those plans (and I don't know if image paths were considered or not). I could ask.

Certainly if you have a budget, mentioning it here might help to get attention from potential sources of help. I hope you don't mind me suggestion this.

-Owen
mnakalay replied on at Permalink Reply
mnakalay
Hi John,

You should really have a look at the video concerning the new Migration tool for Concrete5.
You can find it here:http://andrewembler.com/2015/11/upgrade-concrete5-sites-57-using-ou...

Really watch the whole thing and you'll understand how page paths and images, or files in general, are not a problem.

In your case, however, you will first need to update your site to a 5.6.x version before you can use the migration tool.
slojes replied on at Permalink Reply
slojes
Thanks. I may have misrepresented what we are doing. We are re-building the site from scratch in 5.7, not migrating from 4.2.