URL change

[sinbad]

Greetings All

I maintain a site which deployed in late december at which time I submitted to the url to various search engines and directories, since then the url has changed do to a design issue. I just checked yah.. and goo.. for one of the books and got the old url. I need to find out how to remove this from their database. I also notice that the stats showed hits to page "can't be found". I would be willing to put up a redirect page if I knew how. Any help would be greatly appreicated.

Thank you

[SusyQ]

it really depends on how long ago you changed your url. if it's been very recent, chances are the search engines haven't found it yet. Do you have incoming links to the new site?

as for the 404/redirect page, it's always a good idea, unfortunately i dont' know how to do them either :D .

[luvdavy]

I've got a little personal site on Tripod and they let you make a 404 error page. It may work the same way on regular websites.
I just designed a page and named it error404.html On Tripod, anytime you hit a bad page it will take you right to that, providing the page you were looking for started with the same "domain" name.

I would think if you made that page and had it in your main directory it might work the same way. But unless the old URL was maintained, and you kept it in THAT directory, you couldn't redirect it.

Or maybe I'm a dummy and it's just a special service that Tripod supplies....

Jan 8)

[ihelpyou]

Welcome to the forums sinbad! :hi:

You are better off just waiting until Google crawls and reindexes the new url's. Your site is not that old so simply start from scratch and get good links.

[sinbad]

Thanks All

I have been trying a couple of different things including creating a directory with same name and pages that the search engines are looking for however that didn't work I still got 404. The host has been no help. and the stats show an increase in lost hits. I'm thinking I might just have to wait it out. Is it possible that a prior submission of about 3 mos could have caused this? The search engines were fine about 1 mo ago.

[projectphp]

Depends if you are On APache, IIS or what.

Google .htaccess (http://www.google.com/search?q=.htaccess&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) to know how to do it on Google. On IIS, you are best to try calling your sysadmin / Hosting company