Hello, If I removed a lot of folders from my site that I believe they were already spidered and maybe indexed , Now If I want to strt clean with the new folders , should I resubmit or just leave the spiders and they will see what was added and what was removed ? Thank you sooo much
Do a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file, that is if you're using unix/apache and you really have to change the file/folder names. How you do it in IIS I don't know. Here's a line from the .htaccess file of my MantaWorld.com site - I used to have my blog in the /foreverblueskies/ folder but then moved it to it's own domain in Xmas 2004... redirect 301 /foreverblueskies/index.htm http://www.foreverblueskies.com/ Code (markup): Hope that helps
Well if you have some good link popularity then you will have your new pages spidered quickly. And as mentioned above you can pass on the previous benefit of your old pages by doing a re-direct. If you have a pretty well established site, it shouldnt take too long for them to be back up and running quickly. Brad
that depends on how you handle your folders, do you handle them as wild card subdomains? if so you may go to subdomain and add *.yourdomain.com that way you won't lose the traffic. or better get more webspace and instead of deleting folders just update the pages, the spider will take note of it and record your latest updates to the folders. HTH