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    Migrating from an old website to v8 without damaging google rankings

    I have built my V8 site and gone live but I haven't yet removed the old site. The new site is already indexed by google but not to the extent of the previous site. I find that people are still being brought into the old site.

    I don't just simply want to remove the old site as this would destroy the links and seriously affect traffic to my site.

    Is there some sort of script I could put into the website that can make any requests for a page that no longer exists redirect to my homepage?

    This would be ideal as the old links would still work until they are phased out. People would still get to my site and could then find the new page they were looking for.

    I think this is a big issue for anyone updating a site who relies on google ranking to bring traffic.
    Leigh Robinson

    Hand forged, hand folded custom swords
    http://www.masterforge.co.uk
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    #2
    Hello Leigh

    Add a redirection page! (Redirection is used to have visitors who request a page that no longer exists redirected to another web page)

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      #3
      Won't I have to do that for every page of my old site?

      For example, build a page that redirects for a specific link, then build another page and so on.
      Leigh Robinson

      Hand forged, hand folded custom swords
      http://www.masterforge.co.uk

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        #4
        You could do something like this!

        Install this on to your old page, then direct it to your new page, then upload it to the server.

        <?
        header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
        header("Location: http://www.yourname.co.uk");
        exit();


        ?>
        <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
        <html>
        <head>
        <title>yourname</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
        </head>
        <body>
        </body>
        </html>

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          #5
          Yes you will.

          I don't know of any other way.

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            #6
            I built the site using dreamweaver and templates. So I can add the code to the template for the old site. This should put a copy of it in every page and will make my life a lot easier.

            Thanks for the help.

            Very grateful
            Leigh Robinson

            Hand forged, hand folded custom swords
            http://www.masterforge.co.uk

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