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New Web site- Re-directing web pages & duplicate pages


gassmann56560 Jun 24, 2010 10:05 AM
Posted in group: Webmaster Central

Categories: Crawling, indexing & ranking :

I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES
My site's URL (web address) is: www.ironwoodelectronics.com
Description (including timeline of any changes made): New web site went live last Friday.
      Hi. I just created a new web site for my company. Our older web pages were all HTML. Now they are mostly .cfm (Cold Fusion) pages. I just want to make sure that I did the re-directing correctly so we do not get dropped from Google. Can someone please help me with this? Some of our older pages had frames, so on these pages I used this Re-Direct code:

 <SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
<!--
 function getgoing()
  {
    top.location="http://www.ironwoodelectronics.com/products/sockets/ghz_bga_qfn_sockets.cfm";
   }
   if (top.frames.length > 0)
    {
     setTimeout('getgoing()',10);
     }
//-->
</SCRIPT>
 
      For all the other normal HTML files re-directing to the .cfm pages, I used this code:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.ironwoodelectronics.com/contact_us.cfm">

Thanks for your help.

Andy2010-06-24

I also wanted to mention that I still have our old HTML pages on our site so they can re-direct to the new pages in case someone found them on Google and clicked on them. Should I keep these old pages for awhile? Or can I have Google's robot come crawl our web site and get the new pages and then delete the old ones so they don't show up in Google anymore? Or do I have to remove the old pages before Google's robot comes and crawls our site so they don't get indexed again in Google?