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I'm going to make my seatthole urls non-dynamic.

Anything I should keep in mind while I do this? I will, of course, be keeping the old pages up, but as I add the pages for the new urls, I'll link to the new ones instead.

Is that an okay thing to do? Will google penalize me for having duplicate
content or anything silly like that? Or am I better off leaving it alone?

Here's an example...

OLD WAY:
http://www.site.com/index.php?section=Contact+Us

NEW WAY:
http://www.site.com/contact.php

They both use the same content include file, but they've got different urls.
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I think this should help you a bit, although search engines can handle dynamic URL's pretty well. The best reason for regular URL's is for users. its just easier to send and finteract with normal URL's.

It is possible but unlikely that you would run into duplicate content penalties. The best thing to do is set your .htaccess file to redirect all old pages to the new ones. This is a bit tricky to program, but it is the best thing to do.

so any page that was
/?section=cool+page

would forward to
/coolpage.html