We are currently creating a new website for the purpose of including a shopping cart. The problem we have is that we currently rank well for all of our keywords on google and need to recreate our urls exactly as they are on our existing Joomla installation.
We have a business that is heavily reliant on our search traffic from google (we know this is not ideal!). The shopping cart we want to use is mijoshop (based on opencart)
Our current URL format is http://www.yahire.com/index.php/chair-hire/folding-chair-hire.html
The default url's for this shopping cart are awful and we can change these using an SEF plugin but this removes the index.php from all url's so they would be for example
http://www.yahire.com/chair-hire/folding-chair-hire
We planed to phase out the index.php gradually from the url starting with index.php/event-accessories then moving on to index.php/chair-hire so that if one section of our site drops in rank we still have traffic coming in from the other sections.
Does anybody know of a way to keep some pages containing the index.php/ and some without?
Thanks in advance for any help with this.