webhound - 6:33 pm on Sep 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

We have a related situation.

We're almost done building our new website. In doing this all the pages are going from .jsp to html. So any listings that we had will come up 404 unless we do server side redirects from these old pages to the new ones.

My question is should we bother doing redirects for pages that used to be ranking well in the search engines at all? I mean Google and MSN are pretty fast in crawling, and alot of our listings are the root domain, not all of them are specific pages.

Is it better/worse to just let them go and wait for the site to be re-crawled?