Old pages redirected but still indexed

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by axolotl, Oct 30, 2008.

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    A couple months ago I changed some pages on my Wordpress vacation rental site from a structure like "domain/condo-features" to "domain/keyword-phrase/condo-features." After doing this I found that when entering the old URL I'm redirected to the new, so I thought maybe my Wordpress SEO plugin was automatically taking care of redirects.

    Again, I don't have any problem with 404s. My problem is that both old and new URLs are still indexed in Google, and in fact the old ones have more recent cache dates. I want Google to ignore those old URLs and pay attention to the new ones. Is 301 redirect what I need here, or something else? Thanks!
     
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  2. seopositions

    seopositions Guest

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    use a robots.txt file and restrict Google and most other search engines from indexing the old permalinks.
     
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    You may also add the noindex, follow meta tag in the old pages.
     
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