This how-to came about from a question posed by an SEO Club member: how I do move from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5 yet still keep all my /content/view/24/32 URLs? I've talked with him before and explained that redirecting URLs to a new version is a disaster. My experience it brings a 30 to 50% drop in traffic, so keeping these old URLs was vital. I did some digging around and found the Backlink plugin. This is a great little tool that is almost completely unknown. I found only around 10 Joomla forum posts (http://forum.joomla.org/search.php?keywords=backlink+plugin)and a single blog entry about it which has since disappeared from Joomla.org. Fortunately I was able to dig out the Google cache of Sam Moffatt's post (http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:ynLbVhj2AZQJ:community.joomla.org/core-team-blog/392-migration-so-what-is-this-backlink-thing-anyway.html+%22Migration:+So+what+is+this+backlink+thing+anyway%3F%22 hl=en ct=clnk cd=3 gl=us client=firefox-a) which helped me understand how it worked. It's really pretty simple, once you've migrated the content to 1.5:

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