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Immediately is a bit of an over projection but what I mean is rank for it before the search term for the franchised restaurant returns to mediocracy.

Hi everyone,

My client is a chain of franchised restaurants with a local domain website named after the franchise.

The franchise exited the market while the client stayed and built its own brand with a separate website.

The franchise website (which is extremely popular) will be shut down soon but the client will not be able to redirect the franchise website to the new website for legal reasons.

What can I do to ensure that we start ranking immediately for the franchise keyphrase as soon as the franchise website is shutdown.

We currently have the new website and access to the old website (which we can't redirect)

Thanks,

T

Thanks Hutch42, I actually want to keep ranking for these expired ads despite not having them displated in the classified ads list since they have decent ranking on some long tail searches and I can't create specific landing pages with fresh content to target these searches yet.

Hi all,
We are running a classifieds website.Due to technical limitations, we will probably not be able to list or search expired ads, but we still can view ad details view page if you landed on expired ad from external page (or google search results).Our concern is, if the ad page is still exists, but it's totally isolated from the website (i.e not found by search option on the website and no following site links) will google remove it from the index?Thanks,

T