I have recently restructured my website url's to make them easier to read. To do this I have separated the url's, which were previously concatenated, using underscores. e.g. http://www.retirementlinks.co.uk/seniorsconcessionslinks.html HTML: is now http://www.retirementlinks.co.uk/Seniors_Concessions_Links.html HTML: The problem I have is one of getting Google to reindex the the new pages when a sitemap is successfully submitted. The site has some 240 pages but I have only managed to get 7 re-indexed. Can anyone help?
Whenever i restructure my sites i will submit it to social bookmarking sites and i will tweet it. Usually it will get re indexed within a day or 2
First place meta refresh code in old pages. Because when search engine crawler crawl the old pages it will redirected to new one and indexed. Also, from point of user it will also helpful as user click on old url through the search engine, that page redirected to the old url. Also, keep on off page optimization.
Write an article with a perfect content which really suports a lot for your product and keep URL which want to crawl as a reference at the bottom of you article; ensure that your articel is relevant to the link which you going to give.
Did you use redirection? Update sitemaps, both physical sitemap on your site and xml sitemap to be submitted.
Make 301 permanent redirect using .htaccess all your old URLs to the new. That'll make the reindex process faster and also preserve the link juice and PR if any.