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I have redone a site from A to Z, this meaning that all the links have changed etc, I uploaded the new site and my rankings are still very good but google will not index any of my other pages.
On the server I still have the old pages...ex: .com/eng/estate.html which rank well with google, but these pages do not link to .com (my redone site) I thought google would just discard them and take care of my new site.....Alas it hasn't, these old pages still get well ranked.
My question is simple, do I do a redirect from these old pages to the new .com or do I take them off the server and hope google will index my other pages in my new site?
The reason the old pages do not link to .com is because the site was built into 2 languages, www.whatever.com/english.html and www.whatever.com/french.html....The old homepage was just a splash page.
Cheers
1. The website has been moved to this address: link new address.
2. You will be moved automatically in 25 seconds if you don't click on the link or leave this page otherwise.
Works fine. I don't like _fast_ redirects from one domain to another. I don't think search engines like them too well either. Taste somewhat like dirty SEO tricks.
Presumably they won't get much traffic, but I agree that it's nice to change the content to tell visitors that the page has moved.
A tougher problem comes when an external link to your abandoned page, keeps sending googlebot back, month after month. Many times, I've emailed the webmasters that provided the link, and it's not always easy to get their attention to change the link.
