Posted by Jim Moe on 10/12/07 17:44

On 10/12/07 04:56 am, David Segall wrote:
> I have some pages on my web site that are no longer useful but I am
> reluctant to simply delete them because they may be returned by a
> search engine and, in any case, they are referenced in some Usenet
> posts of mine which will never be deleted.
>
> My current plan is to amend them to indicate they are obsolete and
> remove the links to them on my web site. The links on the obsolete
> page would allow someone to browse back to the current site but not
> vice versa.
>
> Is there a better or "standard" way of dealing with this problem?

In <.htaccess> add this type of directive:
Redirect permanent /oldpage.php http://example.com/newpage.php

After a year or so change it to:
Redirect gone /oldpage.php


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