HELP - Lost SE ranking on updated site.

Hi,

I use to rank very well for my keywords, but have recently upgraded my website and the internal page url's are different.
Since this has happened I have dropped out of the top 10 for my keywords.

Any advice about how to improve this?
I still have a copy of my old store if thats relevant? Someone said something about 301's - but I'm not sure if this is relevant or how to implement it?

Thanks

Floob.

 

pm me. i can help you out

 

Did you update your search engine sitemap to reflect the new urls? That might be one pitfall. Without seeing the site and knowing all you've done it's hard to help you any further.

 

I dont have a sitemap that I submit.
Here are more details:

New Site:
http://www.condomchoice.co.uk/catalog/

Old Site:
http://www.condomchoice.co.uk/old/

 

Make a .htaccess file in your root folder and try this:

To confirm it's working, visit one of your old URL's and it should redirect and display the corresponding new URL in the browser.

 

301 the old pages to the new ones. Then delete the old pages from your site. This will get any external links pointing to the old pages redirecting to the new ones.

 

I've done this and now it reads:

php_value register_globals On
<IfModule mod_security.c>
	SecFilterEngine Off

	# The below probably isn't needed, but better safe than sorry.
	SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>


Redirect permanent /index.htm http://www.condomchoice.co.uk/catalog/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^old/(.*)$ http://www.condomchoice.co.uk/catalog/$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

But I'm still able to access the old files?

This .htaccess is in http://www.condomchoice.co.uk/ or should it be http://www.condomchoice.co.uk/old/ ?

 

How do I '301' the old pages? Do I have to do this for each (over 100) page?

 

Anyone else with ideas about my .htaccess?

 

Try this, remove the 2 lines i gave you and put:

 

That works much better now thanks.

Will this mean that Google should start to rank my 'new' site at some point now?

And does it matter that the html/php filenames from the /old directory dont match those in /catalog ?

 

Anyone have any feedback about if this will begin to help the SE ranking improve?

I'm no longer ranking well for keywords that I was before I updated my internal url's.