SOLVED Remove old links from previous site in Google
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- Jeff G
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Hello,
A bit of background... I recently took control of our website, being displeased with the way our web company was handling our website. So, I started learning Joomla, liked what Rockettheme was doing and decided to go for it.
I built our site, informed the web company that we will need require their services anymore and uploaded my own site to a different hosting and changed the nameservers to our domain. We are now fully online, but I am faced with a lot of 404 from Google who still has links from the old site.
I have tried a number of ways to try and exclude the old links from my old hosting and web company. I submitted new sitemaps, asked for URL removals (denied), etc...
Reading on the net, I am guessing that the old links will be slowly removed from Google, but it is affecting me right now, because most of the searches done using keyword from my site shows the old (and broken links) in Google.
Example:
My site: www.highway11.net
A search in Google for "highway 11 taiwan" :
www.google.com/search?q=highway+11+taiwan
I am happy to see that my new site is the first one showing up. But the 2nd one is from the old and outdated site.
In Google webmasters tools, I have more than 2000 URLs not found... I need to find a way to remove them quickly if possible.
Any thing I can do?
Thanks! - Last Edit: 16 years 8 hours ago by Jeff G.
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- Maria Dacus
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Question: are there broken links within your site leading to these pages that you need to fix?
1 Solution: You could try this. With my host, I was able to create a redirection page. When people type in certain things, it redirects them to the correct page. You could try this, though it may take some good "manual labor".
So you could, for example, do a google search for all the "bad" pages, and type a redirection page that will send them to your new home page. OR, if you still have access to the old site file manager, you could delete all those pages, and create an index.html page that redirects them to the new site. - When solved, please modify your original post and add (SOLVED) into the subject AND change your icon to the green check. This helps people know they can find a solution in your post if they have the same problem.
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- Robert W
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I agree with Maria, use a 'redirect' so when the link is visited it takes you to the new site instead. Google '.htaccess redirect' and you should be able to find out more information on how you want to set it up.
Here's a pretty good link for reference: http://www.ndesign-studio.com/blog/tricks-tips/htacess-redirect/
Hope this helps!
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- Jeff G
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Maria said: Question: are there broken links within your site leading to these pages that you need to fix?
No, my old site/hosting is not available anymore. The web company just doesn't answer any of my emails or calls since the "broke up" !
Robert:
So, could I use the .htaccess" file on my present site?
And is it possible to use "wildcards"?
I have close to 3000 dead links now .. that is indeed a lot of manual labor!
So I tried something like this on my own .htaccess file:
Redirect 301 /pages www.highway11.net
But that didn't work. - Law of Biomechanics
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- Jeff G
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Got it!
I didn't know, but my hosting company offers a redirect tool.
All I had to do is forward the old directory that was the problem, and that I don't use anymore to another link that is "alive" and voila!
That should do the trick for now... - Law of Biomechanics
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- Maria Dacus
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Great! Don't forget to mark it solved
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