Hi there!
I have instructed one of our customers to put a redirect meta tag on his old site (as we have designed a new site for them) and given them a robots.txt file which disallows any robots for the site. This, he did about 4 weeks ago. Still, however, the old site is at the top of the Google search for the McFarlane String Quartet. I know it takes a bit of time, but I don't understand why it is showing. Also the old site description on Google now shows the text of the new site that it is redirected to? Why is this? The old site address is: www. mcfarlanestringquartet.ukf.net and the new site is
www.mcfarlanestringquartet.co.uk
Looking at Google it says it is good to put a 301 header on the old site- but I don't think our customer may be able to do it- as it is a free site from
www.ukf.net . Does anyone know about this? It is getting a little frustrating as we want the new site to overtake the old one and although we've certainly been able to increase the
PR it still is lower than the old site. Please, can anyone help?