Subdomains

[catch2948]

I recently got an expired domain name that, after a bit of study, I found originally had a bunch of subdomains, although I don't really know how many ... Is there any way that I can tell the spiders that are going to these subdomains ( I know the files that they are looking for ) that they can find the file(s) in another place? I wondered about a lengthy .htaccess redirect, but not sure how big a .htaccess file can be, and also am not exactly sure how it would work with subdomains ...

As always, thanks in advance for your replies.

[SEO practioner]

Hello catch and welcome to!

The best way I can think of is to make a complete sitemap of your site. That way, you are sure that Google will
effectively index all of your pages correctly, and will find all of their paths.

If ever you need an example of what a sitemap should look like, just sticky me and I will show you a URL.

Good luck

:-) SEO

[Oaf357]

Welcome, catch!

A site map would work out well and eventually search engines will filter out the old content.

I know a few search engines have a "link removal tool" it's quicker (if the problem is urgent). I've used Google's after a conversion over to PHP and the pages were removed after a few days and freshbot came in right behind and grabbed the new pages (coincident?).

Good luck.