incrediBILL - 4:57 am on Feb 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

Jalinder

It's getting "Deep" in here....

If you're just moving content and don't want to get too penalized I'll tell you what I did as I just had somewhat of a similar problem with a ton of pages. I left all the old links/pages AS-IS and simply re-indexed the entire web site to point to the new page locations, which I thought was better than the redirects. Some search engines picked up the new page location scheme quickly (ok Google, the others stink) and the rest are slowly catching up. Needless to say, when all the SE's are completely up to speed I'll probably install a redirect just to satisfy old bookmarks and links.

Heck, I still have links I maintain that are almost 7 years old and still get about 1,000 clicks a month and not from any search engine - just old bookmarks and web sites, which is staggering if you think about it that with 300,000 visitors a month that 1,000 stumble in thru a back door from when the site was still just a subdirectory in my primary domain, before it had a domain of it's own.