On 25 Aug 2011, at 11:14, Tim Trent wrote:
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> The redesign we were victims of lost them all anyway despite our raising this as a red flag before the migration took place.
It should have been a simple matter of setting up a rewrite to redirect any inbound links to their new (or more appropriate) location and advising the browsers that the page has permanently moved (301)
e.g (for Apache's .htaccess) RewriteRule ^making_visit\.html$ http://www.bclm.co.uk/visit.htm [R=301]
monitoring the server logs for any 404's is a good way to pick up any that you missed, but absolutely the first job should be to map the existing site and decide where to redirect any urls that change.
Design isn't just about the pretty.
:)
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