June 1, 201115 yr Hi all I recently replaced a website I created in dreamweaver, for a new site I created in rapid weaver. The old site performed well from an seo point of view, but was not great aesthetically. I love the look of the new site, but google is getting confused about which pages from which site to return in search results. I have given the pages in the new site different names to those on the old site (not intentionally, just in an attempt to tidy things up.) When I search for my desired keywords, google sometimes returns pages from the old site - obviously they have no active pages behind them anymore. I replaced the site three weeks ago, and I’ve submitted the new site for indexing twice. My question- does my quest for first page organic listings have to start from scratch again? How long will google take to fully embrace my new site? Many thanks - site is dermace.co.uk
June 1, 201115 yr Your best bet would be to place 301 redirects on the old pages so that Google still has content to follow. Have a little read.
June 2, 201115 yr Author Your best bet would be to place 301 redirects on the old pages so that Google still has content to follow. Have a little read. Many thanks for your response. I have been reading a little about 301 redirects, but my knowledge is just not good enough to understand them totally. I have just been snooping through cpanel on my hosting software and it seems there is a facility for 301 redirects. I'm going to take a look at this and report back
June 2, 201115 yr Author Well - you know when you keep reading and re-reading a subject without it soaking in? I just couldn't get my head around the redirects, and if it wasn't for the facility in my cpanel, I probably still wouldn't. In any case - it seems to be sorted now. Many, many thanks for your response.
June 21, 201115 yr Sign Up to Google Webmaster tool and remove old URLs which you don't want show in Search results. Navigate your old pages to new one using 301 redirection.
June 26, 201115 yr I can also recommend to manually start an indexation approach for all of your new pages. This is called pinging. You can mass ping a website or webpage here: http://pingler.com
June 29, 201115 yr It will take time in crawling max about 90 days . The better idea is to submit a sitemap for your new design and do 301 redirection
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