301 a large site in ASP
Hi this is the first time I that I have done anything like this before but we are rebuilding a large website and we want to make sure it doens't lose it good ranking within the search engines. So we were thinking of using 301 to tell google where the pages have moved to.
The problem is I'm not really sure where to start to impliment something this. We have a website that has 26,200 indexed pages, so I need to come up with somekind of solution that would work across the board.
Has anyone ever done something like this? Where would I start? Is there any software built on the market that might help?
Any help appericated.
Busy posted this at 23:43 — 15th May 2006.
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You could use a .htaccess file to do the 301
redirect 301 /oldsite/ http://newsite/
Problem is doing this for 26,200 pages would be a nightmare, unless they were not static pages, if the pages were like product.php?item=... then you just redirect the product.php page.
You will loose some ranking as you are changing sites
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