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I have pages with 7 second meta refreshes for all the old page urls, which send the visitor to the appropriate new page urls. So far so good. But, the problem is that msn only has all my old urls in it's database.
How can I get it to include my new urls, and drop the old ones, for free? As we don't have a budget, and it's a commercial site, we can't pay for msn to respider our site. I know that msn will eventually get search results via other means, but will the presence of my meta-refresh pages mean that it will never get the new page url's, for as long as those meta-refresh pages exist?
many thanks in advance for your help ....
dorjesempa
Simon.
best wishes,
dorjesempa
a 301 is just an HTTP response. Of course Microsoft web servers can do this. As to how, don't ask me, I use Apache :)
dorjesempa
... part of which is:
In IIS you can set the path to the page that handles a 404. This can be a htm page, as in your case, but you can also let it point to 404ErrorHandler.asp for example. In that page you can read out the orginal url (for example [example.org...] ) and redirect it to the new location.
That last part could look like this:
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.addheader "Location", "http://www.newdomain.com/newurl/"
Response.end
many thanks,
dorjesempa
There must still be a better way to achieve this, because not every browser/proxy gives referrers.
