So my company has a huge website with over 7000 static pages. I have been tasked with creating a new website and attempting to account for all of the content. One way in which I've been able to do that, is by using a hash in the url to direct an AJAX call to pull content in dynamically. While this has effectively been able to eliminate many of the pages, I've been concerned with losing the site's SEO rankings, hence: redirects.
Since the new URL's have the potential to become complex (not to mention they all have a hash symbol in them), I came across one user's answer on here on how one might implement a 301 to point to a "redirector.php" and then create a php formula to point the user to the final destination. (https://stackoverflow.com/a/1279955/2005787)
This method has been working beautifully, however, my main concern is that by redirecting someone to a "redirector.php" file, you are losing all of your SEO rankings, since the final location is two steps removed from the original address.
So first, can I implement the "redirector.php" method without destroying my SEO rankings?
Second, if the "redirector.php" method does, in fact, hurt my rankings, then is there an alternative way to generate complicated redirects?
Thank you!
