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We have changed all links on our site <snip> with Mod_Rewrite. However, we still left the old links valid. (Both the new and the old links now display the same content.)
Google is still displaying our old links and not our new ones. Since Google has all of our old links in their database, will they ever updated to the new ones? Since they have the same content? What should we do?
Steve
[edited by: ciml at 12:36 pm (utc) on Oct. 5, 2002]
[edit reason] No URLs Please [/edit]
Welcome to webmasterworld. I'm sure one of the moderators will be by shortly to remove the url from your post as it's against policy to mention specific urls if it's not needed.
You could exclude the old addresses from being spidered next time by putting the addresses or folder in your robots.txt..or by adding the robots meta tag into each page seperately.
I would use the method that Damian suggests. By excluding the old URLs in /robots.txt you avoid risking problems if Google have duplicate content problems again.
Google should reflect the changes you make anything up to two updates after you make the change. Brett's Google Update History [webmasterworld.com] gives an idea of when they do it.
