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"Wot No htacces "

No wonder it did not work !

phantombookman

8:04 am on Jan 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi Guys
good and bad news, bad news my host has just informed me they are running windows and not linux, so no htaccess apparantly.
The good news, well, at least it was not me that failed.

Re previous posts and redirecting existing sites to new host space what is the preferred method?

I have trawled the archives and found this
<HEAD>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0; URL=default.htm">
</HEAD>

should I use the above or just leave Google to sort it all out itself?
Any tips greatly appreciated
Regards
Rod

encyclo

1:30 pm on Jan 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

The meta refresh you quote is just about the worst way of redirecting - no search engine bot will follow it, firstly because they can't cope with the meta redirect, and secondly, even if they could you are telling them not to follow the link with your robots meta tag.

You need to do a 301 Permanent redirect to your new site: I'm a UNIX guy, and have no experience with Windows server, but a quick search shows this thread as being a good start:

[webmasterworld.com...]

You can also try the Microsoft Related - .NET and ASP forum, which is where the MS gurus hang out:

[webmasterworld.com...]

phantombookman

6:45 pm on Jan 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi Encyclo
thanks for taking the time to post, really appreciated.
I have checked the links out and been all over Google.
It looks like a very complicated issue as my pages have .htm extensions not .asp.

I think I am just going to have to let the search engines figure it out and then delete the old site accordingly.
Thanks again
Regards
Rod

g1smd

6:46 pm on Jan 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

If you can't do a 301 redirect from the old site, then simply put a link on each of the old pages, a link that points to the equivalent page on the new site, and put a <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> tag in the <head> section of every page of the old site. Google will update from that in about 4 to 8 weeks too.

"Wot No htacces "

No wonder it did not work !

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