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Subject: Converting a website
Category: Computers
Asked by: pleury-ga
List Price: $15.00
Posted: 15 Jul 2004 17:18 PDT
Expires: 16 Jul 2004 07:08 PDT
Question ID: 374722
We converted our website from basic html to ASP.NET and my questions
is how do we handle the issue with site pages that are already indexed
by search engines.  Will the search engines crawl the new pages and
index the new aspx entensions and what technique should we use to
redirect users to the new pages when the search link comes up with a
old htm exention?
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Subject: Re: Converting a website
From: wasting_time-ga on 15 Jul 2004 22:09 PDT
 
what url is your site?

keep all the existing .htm pages exactly where they are and how they were...
add the following in your <head> tag in your code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.YourWebSite.com">

this will direct people to your updated website and keep your old pages the same
Subject: Re: Converting a website
From: wasting_time-ga on 15 Jul 2004 23:29 PDT
 
yes eventually search engins will find them but i suggest submitting
your page to as many as possible :)
Subject: Re: Converting a website
From: murat_yilmaz-ga on 16 Jul 2004 05:45 PDT
 
Here is the little trick for you...
Maybe not know that First of all all search engine periodically visit
your website... (It called search engine spiders)
What you need to do is keeping ex html file in your server but with
different code the code which redirect new page such as

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-9">
<title>You will be redirecting to our new website....</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
function MM_goToURL() { //v3.0
  var i, args=MM_goToURL.arguments; document.MM_returnValue = false;
  for (i=0; i<(args.length-1); i+=2) eval(args[i]+".location='"+args[i+1]+"'");
}
//-->
</script>
</head>

<body onLoad="MM_goToURL('parent','newaspxfile.aspx');return
document.MM_returnValue">
</body>
</html>

pages which contain this code will be redirect the visitor so SEARCH
Engine Spider's to new site. As search engine spider smart update
their information for new page files...

Friendly Regards,
Murat
Subject: Re: Converting a website
From: pleury-ga on 16 Jul 2004 07:07 PDT
 
thanks guys that helps.  I also discovered that there's functionality
in IIS to also assist in redirection.

Article at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;324064

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