: Basename/URL reuse and Pagerank I'm working with an SEO consultant that is recommending basename/URL reuse. The idea is that Google recognizes a given URL as high value and that URL will maintain
I'm working with an SEO consultant that is recommending basename/URL reuse. The idea is that Google recognizes a given URL as high value and that URL will maintain value over time if the content is fresh. I'd like to know if this is a valid SEO strategy.
So, we'll start with an article under:
example.com/some-search-term
Then, a couple of weeks later we'll "move" the content:
example.com/some-search-term becomes example.com/12345
and a new article is published under:
example.com/some-search-term
Does this scheme make sense? It seems to break a lot of the assumptions about URLs, for end users (bookmarks break) and third party sites (Facebook like counts point to the wrong content).
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If you move the content that was indexed under: example.com/some-search-term to: example.com/12345, in attempt to maintain the same value, you'd have to do a 301 redirect to let Google know that it moved.
If you don't, then the next time Google indexes example.com/some-search-term, it will find the new content there and evaluate it accordingly, and it will index and evaluate example.com/12345 as a new page.
If you continually redirect a URL elsewhere, you'll also run into issues with caching - see this for more on that: 301 Redirects: The Horror That Cannot Be Uncached
As you might suspect, this seems to be an attempt at SEO manipulation, which Google spends a lot of time trying to circumvent. Generally if it impacts users, it's not a good SEO strategy either.
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