Rebuild site- Lose SERP

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by MilesB, Aug 1, 2010.

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    I rebuilt my site using Drupal. The content it mostly the same by which I mean there is a page like the old one on the new drupal page. However links have changed.

    Is there a script I can use which will keep and save my serp for a certain keyword and just redirect people to the page that is most similar in keywords to the old one?
     
    MilesB, Aug 1, 2010 IP
  2. freeseoguide

    freeseoguide Guest

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    did you 301 redirect all old pages to new ones ? you should do that... google have your old pages indexed and now gets 404 pages and that's probably why you lost serp
     
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  3. MilesB

    MilesB Well-Known Member

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    301? I got tons of pages of content.
     
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    Camay123 Well-Known Member

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    Lol. you should try to post in the htaccess section for help on how to do a general htaccess that will automaticaly do 301..... or as i dont know drupal, isnt their a module you can add ?
     
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    praetserge Notable Member

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    Unfortunately, when I had to do similar changes I had to go through 301 redirects but I did section by section and it took me ages.
    Some sort of tool/script would be nice there... try to get a programmer from this forum as there're a few decent ones I used for other tasks.
     
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    dennisb Member

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    The backlinks are pointing towards the old urls so its logical you lost your ranking because you are using a totally new url structure. As stated above you should fix this with 301 redirects but you shouldnt wait to long with this..

    Try at least to redirect the most important and populair pages..
     
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    julietevents Peon

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    301 redirection is required for same...
     
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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    301 redirect the old page to new page if its the same or similar content.
     
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  9. MilesB

    MilesB Well-Known Member

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    How do I make 301 for hundreds of pages of content :O
     
    MilesB, Aug 2, 2010 IP