301 Redirects & Old URLS

  • thermogroup

    (@thermogroup)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    We are soon to begin a site migration.

    Our legacy site has a URL set up for a “team members” page:

    [ redundant link removed ] however the page was never built and is blank.

    There are many other examples of this happening with other pages/urls.

    I want the new website to have a team page however this will be on a new domain.

    is it worth 301 redirecting/linking the new team members page to this old URL, even though it has no data, or am I better off starting fresh with a completely blank canvass?

    Will the legacy team members page have a positive or negative history?

    Thank you.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    There is no benefit in linking new URLs to old URLs.
    If the old URL had no data, there likely were no external links to it, so there would be no broken links if it no longer existed, and no real benefit of redirecting the old URL to the new URL. You could redirect for completeness, but it is unlikely to be used so it just slows the server to parse through all the redirects.
    Build the new structure and then submit it to Google (http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/index.html) and you’re done.

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