Redirect to New URLs

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For a couple years we've been using mapping files to redirect our product pages to SEO friendly URLs. Below is a rule used.

# Product Rewrites
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^productID=(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteCond ${productmap:%1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND
RewriteRule ^productinfo\.aspx$ ${productmap:%1}? [NC,R=301,L]

We now have a new SEO consultant that says all our URLs need to change. I need some expert advice on how best to approach this since all the search engines have us indexed with the existing friendly URLs.

Example of how our mapping works today:
http://www.mysite.com/productinfo.aspx?productID=A121 is redirects to http://www.mysite.com/gift-baskets/baby-gifts/baby-boy

Example of what the SEO wants the change to be:
http://www.mysite.com/productinfo.aspx?productID=A121 is redirected to http://www.mysite.com/baby-boy-A121


How do I map to http://www.mysite.com/baby-boy-A121 and also permanently 301 redirect all the old URLs to the newly suggested ones.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
tina

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello,

If I were you, I'd swap the existing productmap file for a new one with new landing SEO-friendly URL. Secondly, to fix the existing URLs like "gift-baskets/baby-gifts/baby-boy", I'd create a new rule like:

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond ${mapfile:$1|NOT_FOUND} !NOT_FOUND
RewriteRule (.*) ${newmapfile:$1}? [NC,R=301,L]

In a newmapfile you'd place the OLD SEO links to the left and NEW SEO links to the right.

Regards

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I appreciate the help. Put it in place tonight with no issues.