Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 363 Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 3:52 am Post subject:
One idea might be to recreate the site structure and just have a standard redirect of all 404s to the home page. It might not go to the page the person is looking for, but at least it would go somewhere in the same site. It might slow down the current traffic temporarily, but once it got going again it might be worth it to have a more functional site. I'm also thinking that submitting a Google site map of the new structure might help G relearn the site and recover your traffic. Much depends how many inbound links you have too.
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Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 14 Location: Portland, Oregon
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:17 am Post subject:
There's another way to go about this. There's a technical challenge involved but Google will not drop one single piece of indexed information.
First, for all of the existing content, you will want to send the client a 301 Permanently Moved header with the new location of the document that was being requested. Google acknowledges this as a valid server response and will update its index accordingly.
Second, update your CMS or your site structure (however you're doing it) to create a new site layout.
There might be a lot of note-taking involved as you map out the relations between the old file locations and the file new locations.
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Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 14 Location: Portland, Oregon
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject:
Concerning redirects, SSI's won't do what danieltoomey needs, AFAIK. Either it will need to be done with a script or by hand, for each instance.
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