Old pages still found through search engins

  • philbonsai

    (@philbonsai)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    Hi!

    A client contacted me to update his WordPress site. I installed a new theme and devved accordingly. For ease, we changed the permalinks on the new theme so that the url reflects the page name. I know it’s not ideal… Anyway, when searching for his company on search engines, pages from his old site still appear in the results. I didn’t think these pages existed anymore, but apparently they’re being housed somewhere, possibly in the database? For example, we have http://www.mysite.com/contact-us/ and http://www.mysite.com/our-staff on the current site and current theme, but http://www.mysite.com/contact.php and http://www.mysite.com/staff.php of the old theme still show as results from search engines. The content and copy aren’t even the same. Any way I can delete or unpublish these old pages? Or is there some other way to mitigate this? Thank you very much!

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    They have to be somewhere in the hosting account. The engines are finding them somewhere.

    Using an FTP program go through the folders in the hosting account. If you find a folder containing the old files and you still want to keep them on the server, put a robots.txt file in that folder that disallows engines from indexing that folder.

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