Erasing old site

grizzly

I've put up a site of a client, but a Google search still shows the old eircom.net site. What can I do to fix? I've submitted my site to Google for listing (added robots etc). Will deleting the old index file of the eircom site fix this? Is there any best practice for this?

grizzly

Rereading this post it sounds obvious that I should get the old site taken offline. I'm wondering should I maybe leave it up with "no not index" code inserted?

TrueDub

Or simply leave a page with a "Site has moved - redirecting" message, and automatically redirect to the new site?

grizzly

By placing a redirect, would Google automatically not list the redirecting site? Also would a redirect in the index code work or is it better to do it server side?

Eoin

Google "301 redirect" - that's a permanent redirect.

fcrossen

Also it is best to 301 redirect from the individual pages to the relevant new ones. i.e.:

Good:
old-page1.html -> new_page-a.php
old-page2.html -> new_page-b.php

Bad:
old-page1.html -> new_index.php
old-page2.html -> new_index.php

grizzly

Thanks for the replies. I'll try a 301.