301 redirect from dynamic urls (id=123) to seo friendly urls

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We have just released a new version of our website, part of which included moving from dynamic urls (index.php?id=123) to seo friendly urls (friendly-url)

The issue is that google has all of the old dynamic urls indexed and we’d like to be able to perform a 301 redirect from index.php?id=123 to /friendly-url for all of our indexed urls, until google has all the new friendly urls indexed

I’d rather not add 300+ individual redirects and wondered if there is an easier way to do this?

I was thinking another option would be to add a canonical link to each page to show the correct url to use, as I also want to make sure we are not penalised for duplicate content - But I’m not sure if this alone would tell google to stop indexing the old format urls

Thanks in advance
Jon

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Try SEO Tab. It will automatically create the 301. If not, you can install it, and write a simple script in php to add rows to the database. SEO tab will do the rest.