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HammerHost
03-26-2004, 10:09 AM
The site was out dated so I figured I would redesign it. Its listed in a lot of searchengiens. When I typed in stuff like "mustang decals" my site came up, I clicked on it, and it took me to my site.

Now since I erased that site and uploaded my knew site, when I type in anything like "mustang Decals" my site still appears in the searchengines, but when clicked it can't find the page.

Is their anyway I can redirect the trafic to go to my knew pages and so on?

The site is www.muscle-mustangs.com The searchengines now only recognize my .index file. All my subpages are not recognized by the searchengine.

help :)

michaelfoo
03-26-2004, 10:56 AM
Hello,
Give the search engines some time. Most probably, it will be crawled by search engines within 1 month's time.

Good luck!

JayC
03-26-2004, 02:01 PM
Originally posted by xtremestang1
Is their anyway I can redirect the trafic to go to my knew pages and so on? There is. You could use a 301 "permanently moved" redirect, which would tell search engines (and anyone else) that the old page has moved somewhere else. You can redirect each of the old pages to a different related new page, or just send them all to your new index page (not that great a solution for search engines, since they'll all appear to be duplicate pages).

You'd do that by adding a line in your .htaccess file something like this (for each old page that you want to redirect).

redirect 301 /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://www.example.com/newdirectory/newfile.html

But, while that's the direct answer to your "can I redirect" question, it's not what I'd do in this case... I'd just wait a while for search engines to respider the site; they'll find the new pages and find that the old ones are gone, and they'll update their indexes. In the meantime, put in place a good custom "not found" error page telling people that they site's been redesigned and directing them to your index page or site map.