Russ, Good suggesitons, but I can't really do a permanent redirect as I don't know what the old Urls are... I was not involved in the old site creation, nor was my client-contact.
As far as the homepage redirect, I like having the error page to let people know that they didn't make a mistake.. That the site did. Thanks, ....................... Ben Nadel Web Developer Nylon Technology 350 7th Ave. Suite 1005 New York, NY 10001 212.691.1134 x 14 212.691.3477 fax www.nylontechnology.com Sanders: Lightspeed too slow? Helmet: Yes we'll have to go right to ludacris speed. -----Original Message----- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: 404 errors and old google data If possible, set up an apache redirect that redirects the old url to the new one. (and make it a permanent redirect). This way the search engines will start indexing the new site. You can also just rewrite all the not found urls to the home page of the new site, so this way the search engines will just start indexing that instead... > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:25 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: 404 errors and old google data > > A client site of mine is getting a bunch of 404 errors now when > Google/MSN/Yahoo bots are trying to find pages that were on their old > site. > > Will this problem just fix itself over time? > > Should I set the header info (other than a 404 status)? Something like > a permanent redirect or a permanent not found or something? Just > something to let the bots know not to index the error page, but > instead to realize that they don't need to have that link anymore? > > Thanks, > ....................... > Ben Nadel > Web Developer > Nylon Technology > 350 7th Ave. > Suite 1005 > New York, NY 10001 > 212.691.1134 x 14 > 212.691.3477 fax > www.nylontechnology.com > > Sanders: Lightspeed too slow? > Helmet: Yes we'll have to go right to ludacris speed. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237434 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
