Re-designed website - should we rebsubmit?

[BenG]

We've just finished re-designing a website for a UK client. Now when we search in google it shows some old links (obviously). The google webmasterpage says... [google.com]

so that seems fair enough.

My question is should we be re-submitting to any other search engine or do they work in similar ways to google?

thanks for any input, ben

[edited by: engine at 3:15 pm (utc) on May 8, 2003]
[edit reason] provided link to the webmaster page [/edit]

[Birdman]

No, I wouldn't resubmit. I would put permanant redirects(301) on all the old pages by using your .htaccess file. Try to point each redirect to it's counterpart in the new site.

[engine]

I agree, it should not be necessary to resumit the site so don't waste time doing that.

Besides the suggestion by Birdman, I would also focus on looking for appropriate incoming links which will encourage the routine spider walks toward your new site.

Note: You may end up waiting some time for some of the search services to update their index with the new pages.

[BenG]

thankyou both for your input. Its always hard to know what to suggest to clients so we'll tell them to work on some linkage instead, thanks again.