What is the best practice to re-index the de-indexed pages due to a bad migration
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Dear Mozers,
We have a Drupal site with more than 200K indexed URLs. Before 6 months a bad website migration happened without proper SEO guidelines. All the high authority URLs got rewritten by the client. Most of them are kept 404 and 302, for last 6 months.
Due to this site traffic dropped more than 80%. I found today that around 40K old URLs with good PR and authority are de-indexed from Google (Most of them are 404 and 302).
I need to pass all the value from old URLs to new URLs.
Example URL Structure
Before Migration (Old)
http://www.domain.com/2536987
(Page Authority: 65, HTTP Status:404, De-indexed from Google)After Migration (Current)
http://www.domain.com/new-indexed-and-live-url-versionDoes creating mass 301 redirects helps here without re-indexing the old URLS? Please share your thoughts.
- Riyas
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OK Gary. Thanks
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Actually we just had this conversation in another Question
Try some of the ideas spoken about there?
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