It's kind of hard to word this, but here it goes... I am redesigning my site, and changing some of the file structures and not sure how it will affect people seeing my site. Currently my site and 26 subpages are listed in search engines. main page - fightsonglyrics.com subpage - fightsonglyrics.com/A, fightsonglyrics.com/B each subpage lists all the songs for schools starting with letter A, B, and so on. If someone searches "alabama fight song" my subpage will show up in google fightsonglyrics.com/A . Currently if someone clicks on the google link it will take you to the correct page. In my redesign process I am adding a page for each school. SO it will look something like fightsonglyrics.com/A/alabama.htm or fightsonglyrics.com/A/airforce.htm It will help organize all the subpages on the ftp server. The problem is, when I make this change and upload all my new files... search engines will still display fightsonglyrics.com/A but when you click on that it will take you you an unauthorized access page because after my update /A will be a folder ... not a specific file. See what I'm saying? Just wondering if there is a way to fix this? I could just make it fightsonglyrics.com/alabama ... and take out the /A all together.. but then I would have like 500 pages all unorganized. Can I fix this, or do I just need to ride it out until search engines crawl my site after the update? If this is the wrong forum, please move it.. thanks.
You could make the folder viewable or just add an index page there will all the file names there. Sometimes it is also called allow directory browsing.
so I should be able to go into the ftp site and right click on the folder and click "sharing"? sorry I'm at work and can't do it right now.
Not sharing - that is something else. It depends on if you what platform you are using - or maybe a control panel? Most control panels have this option in there for directory browsing or not
I would create new files called A, B, C, etc. In these files, you could have one link pointing to your new index pages. So, now instead of naming your new folders A, B, C, etc. Name them something like Asongs, Bsongs, Csongs, etc. You files called A, B, C, etc will still work from the search engine results and anyone going to these pages will be able to find your new pages. -Maurice
in the spirit of SEO - why ywould you name any folders by letters? wny not name subfolder level 1 something liek states, then sub-sub fodler by school, then filename by the fill keyrword phrase - state-fightsong-lyrics.extension ?
I'm wondering about the same problem. I'm about to implement a site redesign, and I'm wondering the best way to do it so anybody who uses the old links doesn't get a "Page not found" error. Instead, I'd like them to automatically get the most appropriate page in the new site design. It seems like HTTP 301 redirects are the right thing to do, but I don't know enough to be sure of that, or exactly how to implement it. Does anybody know about 301 redirects in this type of situation?