[FM Discuss] Google picking up old pages

[adam]

we have that for the pages that were migrated but we need a redirect 
module so u can enter an old url and a new one for any chapter u like. 
amnyone with spare php time?

adam

On 01/20/2012 06:48 PM, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
> It would probably make more sense to do a permanent (301) redirect for
> multiple reasons - better SEO, and if someone clicks a page, it would be
> great if they were directed to the current version of the manual.
>
> There could probably fairly simple be a rule (for manuals that want it)
> to direct the old page urls to the new manual pages on a per-manual
> basis...
>
> Just a thought.
>
> JF
>
> On 1/20/12 10:08 AM, adam wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 01/20/2012 03:58 PM, Daniel James wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Since the page title fix was made, Flossmanuals pages seem to be getting
>>> onto the first page of Google for certain searches, such as:
>>>
>>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/airtime/ch013_manual-installation/
>>>
>>> Trouble is, that's an old page from an earlier export (with a chapter
>>> number prefix). The current page is at:
>>>
>>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/airtime/manual-installation/
>>>
>>> Is there any way we can purge these older pages at export time? The main
>>> problem with old pages (apart from out of date content) is that the
>>> navigation points to other old pages. So it's possible to read the
>>> complete book and every page be out of date, and the reader not even
>>> realise.
>>
>>
>> some people like the old pages there for archives. but happy to
>> delete. send me a list of the manuals u want cleaned
>>
>> adam
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> Daniel
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