Hey guys, just made a new website and having a noob problem.

 

Our original (old) Website is: http://www.spartansafety.co.uk/network-rail-hi-vis-orange-clothing/'>http://www.spartansafety.co.uk/network-rail-hi-vis-orange-clothing/

Here you can see its a wordpress.

 

And I have been working on the new website which can be viewed at our original domain: http://www.spartansafety.co.uk

 

The old website was made by an employee before me on wordpress.com which is used to make blogs & basic websites

This was the website viewed under the domain spartansafety.co.uk since 2008.

 

Untill I made the new website, and uploaded the files "home.html" & "index.html" - Doing this overided the old wordpress website. Which is good.

 

However the problem is when people search for our products on google, at this moment in time, the search results show links to the old website, not the new website. (for example type in google: "spartan safety armbands")

 

Is this because the old wordpress site files are still being hosted? Will deleting them solve the issue? Or is their a simple way to overide the search results too.

Maybe something in the control panel of our web hoster 1&1?

 

Or maybe the issue is with Google webmasters. There are so many different issue & im confused.

 

Or maybe i should move the wordpress files from the root to another folder inside. Ideally would like to have the search results redirected to the home page.

 

 

 

 

Thanks guys for reading, thanks in advance

 

Sean

Edited May 10, 201214 yr by spartan sean

You need to 301 redirect all URLs from the old site to their equivalent pages on the new site.

You need to 301 redirect all URLs from the old site to their equivalent pages on the new site.

 

was just reading about 301 redirects on googles webmaster page. They say to contact my hoster who is 1&1, which is funny because 1&1 told me to contact google.

That's because 1&1 are ****e.

 

You need to set up your rewrite rules in a .htaccess file in the root of your site.

 

As a side note, your new site really isn't an improvement - you've gone from a CMS to flat HTML, from modern markup to a table based layout (which is deprecated) and as far as search engine spiders are concerned your homepage has literally no content whatsoever, as they can't read images.

Edited May 10, 201214 yr by Renaissance-Design

I would strongly advise you move away from 1&1 at all costs.

 

Even if they are not a headache for you now, the very second anything goes wrong, you will find them completely inept.

 

I have had a horrible experience with them. You only have to look them up on the net to see they're the most hated web hosts.

That's because 1&1 are ****e.

 

You need to set up your rewrite rules in a .htaccess file in the root of your site.

 

As a side note, your new site really isn't an improvement - you've gone from a CMS to flat HTML, from modern markup to a table based layout (which is deprecated) and as far as search engine spiders are concerned your homepage has literally no content whatsoever, as they can't read images.

 

What they wanted in the workplace was an image based easier navigation site to view products. Simulating a catalogue. With no other functions, however I didn't realise I would have to add something into the ALT for all images for the site to be picked up easier, which I will get on with soon.

 

Do you know what I have to type in the htaccess file or can link me to a good tutorial? Someone else told me type

 

"redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm" but i didn't understand that clearly. Thanks

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