Re: search engines and 404

I was going to do that anyway.  I was just wondering what might happen with
the redirect.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Crichton" <pcrichton(at)netphysic.com>
To: "tim booker" <timbooker(at)btinternet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:17 PM
Subject: RE: search engines and 404


> As a rule of thumb, I think you will find the SEs will just ditch the old
> site when they come to a 404 with no active links.  To be on the safe
side,
> I'd submit the new site for the spiders to index.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of tim booker
> Sent: 03 July 2001 10:57
> To: Hwg-Techniques
> Subject: search engines and 404
>
>
> I had a web site which was well indexed with search engines.
>
> However, I have recently taken the site offline, in favour of a new site
> which has a different URL, structure and content.
>
> In order to redirect people to the new URL, I deleted the old site from
the
> server and changed the htaccess file to set the new URL as the 404 error
> page.
>
> The question is... What effect will this have on the search engines when
> they come to re-index the old site?  Any general wisdom about this sort of
> thing?
>
> Tim
>
>

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