On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Jenny Gavin-Wear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just done a big update on a site and, of course, the files names and > structure has all changed. > > I've been looking for ways to handle the 404 problems, especially for SEO.
For SEO reasons, you want the old pages to 301 redirect to the new ones rather than go to a 404. When a search engine spider hits a 404 it will drop the listing (not usually the first time, but eventually). When it hits a 301 (moved permanently) it will follow the link and should update it's index (again, not usually the first time, but eventually). On Apache you would do this with htaccess files - redirects and mod_rewrite. On IIS you can use an ISAPI filter like ISAPI Rewrite (which has a per server cost) or there's a free one too called IONIC. Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak business: www.cleverstarfish.com coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com personal: goatlady.wordpress.com | heapsbad.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:304957 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
