FN-FORUM:Search engine optimisation

date posted 1st June 2005 14:15

Hi all

I wonder if anyone can help me with this,
last week I cleaned up the webspace of a client , and put his new
site in the root of the webhosting site
www.pertwoodorganicfarm.co.uk, the site has existed in various guises
and places for the last 8 years and google and other search engines
do produce a good set of links. The problem is that they will now all
get 404 errors, I have put in an .htaccess file to redirect them all to
the root of the site.
My question is will the initial 404 result, before they get redirected,
cause my results to go down on google? is there a better thing I can do
with a .htaccess file to redirect the search engine to the new page?
The site uses an I frame (i know!) so I have put in a new contents
page for crawlers
also there is a very old incarnation of the site which is
comprehensively listed in the non google powered engines, I have
inserted a meta tag redirect to the new site I have access to the ftp
but I can only use html, no htaccess, or scripting, what would be the
best thing to do with it?
TIA
Carrie


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