Re: FN-FORUM:Search engine optimisation (OT)

date posted 1st June 2005 14:42

Hi Carrie,

When you're finished you might like to add this site to our directory on http://www.ukagriculture.com

Best wishes

Trevor
http://www.tboult.co.uk


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From: "Carrie" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:35 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM:Search engine optimisation


>
> Hi all
>
> I wonder if anyone can help me with this,
> last week I cleaned up the webspace of a client , and put his new
> site in the root of the webhosting site
> www.pertwoodorganicfarm.co.uk, the site has existed in various guises
> and places for the last 8 years and google and other search engines
> do produce a good set of links. The problem is that they will now all
> get 404 errors, I have put in an .htaccess file to redirect them all to
> the root of the site.
> My question is will the initial 404 result, before they get redirected,
> cause my results to go down on google? is there a better thing I can do
> with a .htaccess file to redirect the search engine to the new page?
> The site uses an I frame (i know!) so I have put in a new contents
> page for crawlers
> also there is a very old incarnation of the site which is
> comprehensively listed in the non google powered engines, I have
> inserted a meta tag redirect to the new site I have access to the ftp
> but I can only use html, no htaccess, or scripting, what would be the
> best thing to do with it?
> TIA
> Carrie
>
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