I'm talking now re. redirecting visitors to a new site.

How can I get the search engines to list the url of the new site?

301 redirect

For a change, theseokit is right. What you'll want to do is use a 301 redirect to direct users from the old pages to the new pages.

Here's the Active Server Pages code (I don't know other languages):

Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", your new page here
Response.End ' Don't forget this part or both Googlebot and MSN's bot will choke on it.

Adam, have any articles on creating a correct 301 redirect. I could not find any

Another poster, and one whose intelligence and cunning I think we all respect, had a lot of trouble figuring this one out. So let me say this:

It doesn't matter how your 301 is generated, only that it be sent to the bot. This could be with ASP, like the code Adam generously provided us with. It could be done in PHP, and probably very similar. It could be done with mod_rewrite, popular with Apache servers. Any of these methods don't matter, only the result - a 301 redirect.

But it can't be done with JavaScript, because search bots ignore java.

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

Another poster, and one whose intelligence and cunning I think we all respect, had a lot of trouble figuring this one out. So let me say this:

It doesn't matter how your 301 is generated, only that it be sent to the bot. This could be with ASP, like the code Adam generously provided us with. It could be done in PHP, and probably very similar. It could be done with mod_rewrite, popular with Apache servers. Any of these methods don't matter, only the result - a 301 redirect.

But it can't be done with JavaScript, because search bots ignore java.

PHP?

I don't think thats a real 301 redirect, that PHP would still use some sort of coding to do it, but the spiders would not follow that correct? I could be wrong.

A redirect is an HTTP response (header?). You request an old URL with your browser, and get an answer that says "We've moved that document, if you'd like it, please request this address instead." So long as the search bot gets this message, it doesn't matter how it was generated.

That's actually the beauty of server-side coding like ASP/PHP, that you can do all kinds of elaborate things, but in the end it just sends down standard html. The client in the end doesn't even know how the html was created, just that this is the document they asked for.

I see, ok cool then do it that way, I never thought of it to be honest

Well, I wouldn't do it that way, PHP is kind of lacking. I hate to say it, but it's true - the latest version, from about a month ago, goes a long way toward catching up with ASP, but there's still a long way left to go. But for people who run their sites in PHP, don't be afraid to use this method - it's easy, they already have the skills required, and it'll work.

Again, java won't, though, because the search bots don't run java.

I wonder if they will ever proccess java correctly?

No. They don't want to. They crawl the entire web, and would get some nasty infections if they ran java in their bots.

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...1&#entry117701

scroll down to find some code additions

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...showtopic=5644 every version of redirects you could ever need including PHP ones.