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I wrote an e-mail to Google about this very topic. Unfortunately, I do not have the e-mail (it’s at home I think) off-hand, but I do recall it can take up to a week. They also replied that they don’t control how often the search engine crawlers come across any particular site. if you want to track how often they do, you could try out some web-based PHP website tracking software. You can recognize google by the following domains:
crawlerx.googlebot.com
Where x equals a number. So far I’ve been 1-13.
You dont have to wait for google to catch up, thanks to Redirecting MT entries. Check that out 🙂
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Trench
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I’ve already deleted all my MT files. 🙁
I guess what the script does is to redirect urls with the previous MT entry urls to the the current WP pages that have the same entries.
so if come to your site looking for yourblog.com/archives/0000121.html (MT url thats dead now)
the script will redirect me to
yourblog.com/archives/2004/02/the-right-entry(WP url for the imported MT entry)
Thats why its cool 😉
It is cool. And I’ve implemented it, but I’m wondering how long I will have to keep those files on my server. I guess after a month or two it will be ok to delete them. I guess I now have an excuse to customize my 404 pages.
I think it takes google about 2 weeks to reindex your site. I did a stupid thing of deleting my MT archives as well, so every google query get a 404 for now … I make changes to .htaccess to redirect all 404s to my index page, no time to make a proper 404.
