How to get google to forget my old but still working page and list my new fully optimized page for a keyword?
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Hi There!
(i am beginner in seo)
I have dynamic and static pages on our site. I created a static page for a specific keyword. Fully optimized it, (h1, alt, metas, etc.....maybe too optimized). My problem is that this page is alive for weeks, checked it in GWT and it is in robots.txt, google sees it, and indexed it. BUT whenewer i do a search for that keyword, we still appear with the dynamically created link in the google listings.
How could i "redirect" google, if sy make a search for that keyword than shows our optimized page? Is there a tool for that? I cant delete the dynamic page...
Any ideas?
Thx
Andrew
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Thanks for your answer Dirk!
I will check all links pointing to that old link, and will upgrade them to the link of the new static page. Hopefully that will solve my problem.
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Even if the new static page is 100% optimised - if all the internal links on your site are pointing to the less optimised dynamic version of the page, it will still be the dynamic page that will be listed.
If the content is quite similar - you could put a canonical url on the dynamic page, pointing to the new static version. This way you indicate to Google that you prefer the static version to be indexed.
Another possibility would be to redirect the dynamic page with 301 to the static version, my guess would be that this would be more difficult to do.
Dirk
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