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Written by Baruch Avraham March 28, 2006 Dear LEDers, In the statistics of my site I see pages that do not exist on the site any more. For example the page aris-titanium.com/titanium-bands.html was once aris-titanium.com/t_ring.html and it apears as being indexed as error page. More so with aris-titanium.com/paypal.asp that does not exist any more. But it apears in big numbers (up to 60 a day) as error page. Also aris-titanium.com/robots.txt comes as error page in large numbers. Does anyone knows the reason for this? And if this cause a problem with search engine ranking. I will be most grateful for any insight. Best Regards Baruch Avraham aris-titanium.com Written by Michael Martinez March 29, 2006 The search engines will follow old links forever. Somewhere on the Web are links to your dead pages. You probably won't be able to get them changed, unless they are on your own site. The more pages you move to new URLs, the greater this problem becomes. I use a lot of redirection on my sites to keep old URLs people link to from being a total waste. Michael Martinez michael-martinez.com Comments (0)
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