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- suga12ay
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Hi Everyone,
I have recently replaced the companies old website for a new joomla site.
When i type the company name in google its shows the main url
and underneath it shows urls, relating to the company website.
But since i changed the system to joomla those pages no longer exist.
How do i remove these links? or even update them to point to the new website??
Please help me!! thanks!!
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- CMYKreative
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You can't do anything about those links yourself, Google is the one that decides which (if any) urls are shown there.
If you've changed all your url's however, you want to create 301 redirects asap from any old urls to new ones so that you don't lose any link juice. - CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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- CMYKreative
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- Ideally, you would have mapped your old site first and made a list of ALL the urls there are. Then you would make 301 redirects from ALL of those old urls to new urls in your new site, making sure that every old link url points to a new one.
- CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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- prim
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- suga12ay
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Thanks guys for the help!!
So just to confirm, if i make the 301 redirects from all the old links to the new links
google will update this for me automatically overtime and change the links permanently??
The only reason why i didn't change all my links because we completely scratched our
old website (which was using different CMS) and recreated it with joomla.
Thanks
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- prim
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It depends on how it was setup. If it was setup like this:
yoursite.com/wordpress (old site)
yoursite.com/joomla (new site)
Then you could do a 301 and re-direct to the new directory
- Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
A template is only as good as the content that goes into it - DanG
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- CMYKreative
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It doesn't matter . . . by implementing a 301 redirect for each old url to a new one, you are telling Google (and others) that "this" page has moved to "this" page.
Also, this has immediate effect. - CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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