Recently the beta upgrade from v2 to v3 was released, after taking a look I noticed that it didn’t update any of the urls (at least I didn’t see anything that did). Basically if you upgrade your live site now then you risk losing your indexed links.

This is possibly the worst thing you’d want to happen to your established site, except from maybe the server dieing and not having backups (you do have backups, right?).

I’ve got in touch with the developers to see what they say, it was probably just a moment of forgetfulness on their behalf. Good thing I’ve got my eyes open heh

Anyway the solution would be to use 301 redirects for all the existing links to the new ones. If you know how to put these in place then prepare to do it once you’ve upgraded so you don’t lose your hard work!

As for those using the seo pack, their link solution (if they provide one) won’t work for your sites as the links are already rewritten. I will be providing custom solutions depending on your seo pack settings so you don’t lose any links, you just need to get in touch with me. You can contact me through my portfolio site here. If you decide that it’s not a problem losing links then you can upgrade as normal without any problems.

It’s best to contact me before upgrading though as the link redirections need to be put in place as soon as possible so the search engines don’t get a chance to spider the site.