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I am working with a client who has just built out a brand new Web site under a new domain name...his old site is going to be de-listed once the new one takes hold (his idea...not mine)..
He wants to link in from the old to the new to get the new one crawled...(freshbot sees the old one regularly)..
Should he point all the old pages to the new index page with the primary keyword embedded in the anchor text? or should he do page to page (the new site has a similar directory tree with brand new content)..with the corresponding anchor text?
I thank you in advance for your help...
If there is a corresponding page on the new site for an existing page I would redirect to the corresponding new page,otherwise I would redirect to the index page.
<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 301 moved permanently");
header("Location: [new-url...]
exit();
?>
I'd appreciate a stickymail letting me know if it produces the desired results for you.
Have a read: [webmasterworld.com...]
Thank you both for responding to my query...
the "301 permanently moved" is a bit of a concern as the old site has some excellent Google positions and we want the audience from the old site to easily find the new site...but we don't want the Google penalty (if there is one for possible redirects or some duplicate content)...
SO we are trying to find another approach that will give us our proverbial cake and eat it too solution....If I find something I will definitely pass it along here..
Thank you...
If google requests your site and gets a 301, eventually it will remove that URL from the index but add the site its being redirected to.
301 redirect is the most 'graceful' way that you can do this.
I could be wrong., in my case it all went thru to the new domain ok and listed as be4.
