pages that no longer exist?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by samzach, Nov 28, 2006.

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    i had a domain name + hosting that i was using as a personal blog but it wasn't working out (i didn't get time to post much). now i've set up another site on it - me and a group of friends are trying to maintain content on it now.

    the old pages are still indexed in the search engines. i've submitted a new sitemap to google. how long before you think the old pages will drop out? any way to facilitate this?
     
    samzach, Nov 28, 2006 IP
  2. disgust

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    include a robots.txt that disallows google, then fill out a site removal form.

    personally though I wouldn't care about the old site being in google and would redirect traffic to the new site via a 301-- still get your old traffic, still get the link popularity you accrued.
     
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    Why don't you update the old pages and inlcude links to new ones?

    The new pages will, however. eventually make it to the index (with the right mix).
     
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    Actually Disgust has the right idea....

    What type of server are U on? Windows or LAMP?
     
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  6. disgust

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    there are a lot more setups out there than just "windows" vs LAMP :)
     
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    Yup... I also own a hosting Co among oter things... just trying to figure out how to help by identifying options (.htaccess et al)

    :D
     
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    Just on the same topic any idea how long it would take for them to just naturaly drop of ?
     
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  9. samzach

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    the site is the same - i mean lets say i had abc.com running a wordpress blog uptil a month ago. now i have a new site on abc.com. the wordpress pages are still showing up when i search for the pages on google (site:abc.com).
     
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    LAMP. you think i should use htaccess to redirect them to my new pages? i'm already using a lot of mod rewrite.
     
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    If you have access , certainly. Are the two sites loosely related Topically?
     
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