__/ [ madsgormlarsen@xxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 13 March 2006 20:32 \__
> I have moved my site from at temporary place on
> www.madsgormlarsen.dk/andersen to www.winches.dk . I then did a 301
> redirecting on the old www.madsgormlarsen.dk/andersen. Which works just
> fine. However what happend is that Google removed www.winches.dk from
> there index and keept www.madsgormlarsen.dk/andersen ?
>
> Now could I solve this with a sitemap ?
>
> Google writes about it here
>
> "
> I migrated my website to a new URL.
> ...
> Finally, you may submit a list of your new URLs through the Google
> Sitemaps (Beta) program. Google Sitemaps uses webmaster-generated
> Sitemap files to learn about your webpages and to direct our crawlers
> to new and updated content."
>
> How does one do that?
>
> Best regards
> Mads
Hi Hads,
What you need to make available is a type of one-to-one correspondence be-
tween the old pages to the new ones, as opposed to just the main page act-
ing as a redirection. In practice, this is simplified because you needn't
redirect each individual page. The sitemap is used as a substitute to the
conventional ways of crawling a site. Rather than following a path of
pages, a list is constructed and made public, which contains all addresses
that need to be crawled and indexed.
I suggest you begin by signing up with Google Sitemaps, assuming you aim
for Google specifically. Doing a redirection in that way alone is some-
thing I passionately discourage you from doing. Human visitors may still
land in the old site and the older pages without arriving at the new,
fresher content. This also dilutes the impact of your backlinks. More con-
troversially, only Google makes use of your XML-formed sitemaps, which is
unfair to the competitions.
Either way, the technicalities will be contained in Google's manuals for
sitemaps. You will need to have a list on the old site which onlya contains
the URL's in the new site. As far as Google is concerned, this should do
the trick. Make sure you also redirect all pages, either at page-level or
at server-level.
Best wishes and good luck,
Roy
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