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    1. Re: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] Revamping old website
    2. Tina Clarke
    3. >I also have a question about an old website. How can I get rid of it all >at > once, or must it be taken down page by page? We have approximately 2000 > pages on the old one, and people keep getting to the old site, which > hasn't > been updated in 2 years. > > The new one is working perfectly, and we're updating it at least weekly, > which means people going to the old site are getting cheated out of the > new > additions. > > Nan Dixon > > website <http://jefferson.nygenweb.net> is the new one > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyjeffer/ is the old one I would wipe each page of content and tempate on the old one and put a link to the new page of the new site using the title of the page its going to.... I don't think rootsweb allows you to make a 301 redirect? Have to ask Pat if you can. If you do not do this you will lose visitors. Do NOT use a meta redirect as the search engines won't like this. Tina http://www.expression-web.net - Expression Blog http://any-expression.com/ - Expression Web Help http://frontpage-to-expression.com/ - Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web twitter.com/ @tinaclarke @expressionweb

    02/14/2010 08:54:35