Remove old sites from search engines

[Colonel]

How do I go about removing links to my old website. I have changed servers but when I do a search both my new site and old site appear. any ideas?

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[E-8]

Paul,

Submit the dead URL to the search engines. That will delete it. http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

Charlie

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[virtual-bird]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by E-8:
Paul,
Submit the dead URL to the search engines. That will delete it. http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif
Charlie
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Most ISP will allow you a redirector from your old URL for a month or so, in your case with large amounts of hits it gets, it would be useful to look into this.

Also when you put your new URL up for the search engines, do this more than once.


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[espee2]

that's a good idea... submit the dead url.(?) however, the way I read it at yahoo, and infoseek and other major SE's was to just submit your new url, eventually, the spiders will go back to re-spider your old url, find it dead, and the index bot will delete your old url from the list...
this may take a while... I still have my original URL from 6-months ago on some SE's...

one word on yahoo... google is now owned by yahoo, and google does all their searches now, this is a good thing, as google is very easy and fast to submit to... and I feel has the best "text keyword" indexing around (it indexs text on your page, as well as meta tags, although I have only seen text keywords in searches, not meta keywords.)

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[This message has been edited by espee2 (edited 03 August 2000).]

[Colonel]

I went to infoseek and was able to remove my old site

thanks for the advice

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