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Krish
Krish

Reputation: 35

Clean the website Domain - still showing old files

We have a website developed in php many years ago.We now redeveloped the website using asp.net. I have published the website and everything work fine now.

Lately, I see there are several requests hitting the site with old urls(php). I did submit the sitemap to all the major search engines but the requests to the old URLs still keep coming every few weeks mstky from bing now.

When I checked the bing webmaster tools, my domain folder structure still shows the php folders and files alomg with the new asp.net folders/files .So I assume that whenever the spiderbots are crawling my webiste, all thesse files are hit and logs the errors.

My question is why are the old files still showing up when they are not physically present in the filesystem( Hosted them on IIS) and the php folders dont even exists here. How do I clean the domain and come out of this problem as the log files keep growing unnecessarily?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 165

Answers (2)

Aristos
Aristos

Reputation: 66641

When you like to change a page from example.php to example.aspx the "correct way" to not lose your indexes on crawlers, and also do not lose your users bookmarks is to make a permanently redirect on each page that you going to change location.

for php that will be :

<?php
 header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
 header("Location: http://example.org/example.aspx");
?>

So you need to add that on each of your old php pages, and move them to the new location.

Crawlers will keep the old links, and even if they are not on index, even they are not exist, they will be looking for them for long time. When they decide that is not a web error, and they are gone for ever they will be deletes them, until then you will continue to see them.

Upvotes: 0

ZippyV
ZippyV

Reputation: 13048

I have also noticed that Bing seems to remember those pages for a long time even if they give a 404 or 301 HTTP result. It's not because Bing remembers those pages that they are shown in the search results.

404 errors are the least of your worries. Lot's of bots will come to your site and request pages that don't exist.

Upvotes: 0

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