I want to make some changes to my web site that requires some URL rewriting to keep my old URLs. I can’t use proper URL rewriting because I have very limited control from my hosting provider.
As I’m using ASP.NET and all of my pages have the .aspx extension, one idea I had is to put something in the global.asax under the Application_BeginRequest event. This could check if the URL of the page requested is one of the old ones and use Server.Transfer to open the correct page.
My question is, would this transfer this invisible to Google? I don’t want my ranking within Google to be affected.
Server.Transferhappens entirely on the server side, so any client (including Google) will not be aware of it.