Google - Changed Page Links

[WillNicholls]

Hi,

I've just relaunched my website, so it is the same domain but most of the page links are different.

www.willnicholls.co.uk.

If you google "Will Nicholls", you'll see my site comes up at the top with some sitelinks underneath. These all lead to dead pages. I have added some of them in webmaster tools to be demoted.

Is there a way to stop google showing the old links and update them to the new ones?

 

[Dale_tem]

htaccess redirect

You can use the htaccess so that someone coming in for one page can be directed to a page that does exist.

http://www.htaccessredirect.co.uk/

Check your 404 errors over the next few months in your webstats and add others as needed in case people have stored favourites etc. or there are some other obscure pages linked to somewhere.

So something like...

redirect /maingallery http://www.willnicholls.co.uk/

Will redirect those trying to get to the gallery to the homepage (as there is no main gallery page, but 2 galleries)

 

[WillNicholls]

htaccess redirect

You can use the htaccess so that someone coming in for one page can be directed to a page that does exist.

http://www.htaccessredirect.co.uk/

Check your 404 errors over the next few months in your webstats and add others as needed in case people have stored favourites etc. or there are some other obscure pages linked to somewhere.

I don't have access to the .htaccess file on the new site. Although on the old site I do, but I have the whole .com domain redirecting to the new site and I have parked the .co.uk one I used to use too to the new host.

Doesn't that override the .htaccess ? Since I'd want to redirect willnicholls.co.uk/about.html to willnicholls.co.uk/about-me, but the whole willnicholls.co.uk has moved host so the old .htaccess doesn't affect it? And as I say I can't access it on the new site. Google is listing the old .co.uk links not the .com ones.

 

[Dale_tem]

You might need to change the redirect then, so that the redirecting site redirects individual pages rather than just forwards the whole site.

 

[WillNicholls]

You might need to change the redirect then, so that the redirecting site redirects individual pages rather than just forwards the whole site.

Ok will do, but will that make a difference since Google is showing the .co.uk links and that domain is no longer parked on that host. Eg. I cannot direct willnicholls.co.uk/about to willnicholls.co.uk/about-me

 

[Dale_tem]

On your .co.uk site, do you still have hosting?

If you create all the redirects (including one for the root) all the pages will work.

You might be able to redirect all requests to the old site to the root of the new site, I can't remember quite how.

 

[WillNicholls]

On your .co.uk site, do you still have hosting?

If you create all the redirects (including one for the root) all the pages will work.

You might be able to redirect all requests to the old site to the root of the new site, I can't remember quite how.

No I have moved the .co.uk domain to a new host which won't let me do redirects manually.