Changed my site to use Actinic........

[Steve Donovan]

Greetings,

I used to run my website at http://www.oilboilersdirect.com using a competitors package (shouldn't mention their name here but it rhymes with Beryl (sort of)). I've recently launched my new Actinic built site but if I search in Google by doing a 'site:http://www.oilboilersdirect.com' it still finds all my old pages in its' cache. Now that these pages are all dead I obviously get 404 errors if i click the links Should I recreate these old references on my new site and point them to my new home page or is there an easier way. P.S. any comments on the site so far?

[sportinggundogs]

Hi was your old site .com? if not you can set up a domain forwarder on your domain account for that domain... ir forward .co.uk to .com, that way any pages cached and searched will be forwarded, hope this makes sense...

[Steve Donovan]

Thanks for the quick response Yes the domain name was the same. It's not actually a big issue, it's just that for SEO purposes i don't want any potentially dead links stuck in Google's system while I wait for to finish 'boting my new site.

[pinbrook]

I'd just check for a 404 error doc, and point this to your index page or acatalog/index

this way you will keep visitors on your site.

or the longer methos is to create a 301 permanamet redirect from old page name to new page name.

Search the community fo rkeywords such as "redirect" "404" "htaccess"

[Steve Donovan]

Thanks Jo.