Remove site form Google?

[chrissio]

Hi There,
I've recently gone into google to see what page was cached for our site. It seems it has our old web address and our new one is not ranked in google at all. I am in the process of re-doing our site, cleaning it up, making it a bit more appealing. So I was just wondering if I should remove our old address from google and when I have completed the new one to re-submit it?

Chrissio

[JamesR]

use a 301 redirect on the old site to the new one.

Do that by putting a line like this in your .htaccess file on your old site:

redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.newsite.com

that would redirect all home page requests on the old site to the new. Google will follow and index the new site and get rid of the old.