Hi. We have an existing site with 2000 links indexed . Its at www.domain.com Buy now we have developed a new wordpress site which cant import that static site's contents. So, what Im thinking to do is, 1. Move the old site to www.domain.com/old/ 2. Setup new website on the main domain. But in that case, when someone clicks on my old 2000 indexed pages, I dont want them to get 404, but automatically get redirected to the new location , lets say, www.domain.com/news.html should automatically get redirected to www.domain.com/old/news.html . Let me know, if that can be done.
So your going to be using the same domain name but with different content. right? Create a 301 redirect. This tells search engines the page has move permanently and to update the url. Search google for something like... 301 Redirects from your Wordpress 404 Error Page.