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1. calx601
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Dear all,

   We just launched a new music website, http://www.calcatelli.com powered by WordPress.

   The previous site has been around for some time & was indexed decently by google. I wasn't able to keep the same link structure (fortunately!) as the previous site urls were complex and user UNfriendly!

   At this stage I find the following situation/dilemma:

   1) The previous site (with old unfriendly links) is no longer active
   2) The new WP (with user-friendly links) is active
   3) Google still picks up several old links... structured in the old way. For example:
   http://www.calcatelli.com/ita/index.php?page=discography

   Since the old site isn't active I don't think I can activate any special re-directs to the new WP site.

   The old links then revert to the homepage or (more frequently) to a 404 page.

   - Is there a way I can tell Google that this page (in the example above) has been permanently moved to: http://www.calcatelli.com/music

   (If yes - how? If no, will I just need the pages to be re-indexed?)

   - I switched off my old site about two weeks ago. I noticed today that I've actually disappeared from search engine results for those keywords I was previously ranking first or second page for. What is more is if i type my own name, my site URL shows up with the word "ENGLISH" as a description. Should I be worried, or just allow Google to do its thing?

   Thanks in advance for any support!

   Calx

2. wptorgue
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   You can use one of the multiple plugins to handle this, or you can alter you .htaccess file. You need to make complete list of what urls are "lost" and what urls are the new versions of the "lost" ones.

   This is a procedure best done before moving.

3. calx601
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Thanks wptorgue!

   I can recover the URLS (but not the actual content, though).

   Would you be able to suggest a plugin that can do this? Haven't been lucky with my search...

   Thanks

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