When 'users' of my website search (in Google) they many times end up being pointed to pages that no longer exist. I redesigned my website several weeks ago and renamed (or deleted) many of the original webpages. While redesigning, I copied the site (example.com) to orig-example.com so as not to interfere with day to day work. I've now redirected orig-example.com/*.html to example.com/ (at hosting server) and that works fine. Problem is, Google still knows about my original pages (example.com/old*.html) and 'presents' them to people doing searches (when redesigning I used SSI so all pages are now .shtml -instead of .html- and most file names are different). I've placed a new sitemaps.xml file on domain.com (and deleted the old one) and gone thru the Google indexing process (also created a robot.txt file but that doesn't seem to help.) Is there something else I can do? Or do I just wait for Google to forget about the old pages? [edited by: tedster at 1:55 am (utc) on Feb. 19, 2008]
[edit reason] switch to example.com - it can never be owned [/edit]
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