Highly Ranked.....old pages

Hi,

I have on v3 now of a local site which ranks well for local search phrases. However Google/Yahoo/MSN seem hell bent on ranking many of my pages from v1/v2 of my sites still. Is there anything I can do to retain the rankings but automatically forward the visitor onto the new site. I havent done anything in the past as I didnt want to rock the boat rankings wise.

thanks.

 

You could permanently redirect from the old pages to the new - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633

 

You can use this simple piece of PHP code to redirect your websites:

<?php
// Permanent redirection
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.new-location.com/file.php");
exit();
?>