Left Store Burst but pages still ranking?

theonemanyuri · Apr 23, 2011

I've started taking some of my stores away from SB and putting my own affiliate sites on them.

The site in question used to rank page 1 / page 2 for most of it's keywords but has recently dived out (or atleast right down) the SERPs. It has 1,100 odd links which have grown organically no real link building been done.. are there any good ways to give it a boost in G? It still ranks 2nd on page 1 in Yahoo and Bing

And my main question... I've noticed that the highest ranking pages for the aforementioned site are search.php and similar, which no longer exist since I left SB... is having these non-existant pages in G doing the site any harm and is there a way I can get rid of them?

boxfish · Apr 23, 2011

If the pages no longer exist then they will slowly fall out of google. If you had planned it better you could have 301'd the highest ranking ones to pages on your new site, may still be a good idea if there are some decent links to deeper pages.

I have a question though. How on earth do you get over a 1000 organic links to a storeburst site?

theonemanyuri · Apr 23, 2011

Ok cool. How would i set a 301 redirect on those pages, obviously there not in my cpanel because they no longer exist? It wasn't really a planned thing i was just pissed off with SB so moved it over there and then.

I don't know how it has that many links, it had 200 a fortnight ago. I put a link on a few blogs a few months ago and that's it. They're obviously not making much difference judging by my position in G

boxfish · Apr 23, 2011

theonemanyuri said:
Ok cool. How would i set a 301 redirect on those pages, obviously there not in my cpanel because they no longer exist? It wasn't really a planned thing i was just pissed off with SB so moved it over there and then.

I'd do a site:yourdomain.co.uk in google and get a list of urls which are still indexed.

Then, download the .htacess file from the root of your hosting and follow this:

Code:

[B]A Single "Page A to Page B" 301 Redirect[/B] 
If you want to redirect "mysite.com/old.html" to "mysite.com/new.html", add the following line to your .htaccess file, under the line "RewriteEngine on":

Redirect 301 /old.html http://www.mysite.com/new.html

The first URL is the one being directed, and the second URL is the one it is being redirected to. Note how you must not type out the full web address for the first URL!

Note: You only have to include the line "RewriteEngine ON" only once in your .htaccess file...therefore, I won't keep repeating it in all of the examples below.

You may also be able to pick out some old urls from inside webmaster tools.