How can make my website re-indexed by google and yahoo

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How can make my website re-indexed by google and yahoo

maxmost

12:00 am on Jul 14, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have a website developed by PHP and indexed by google, yahoo and msn with session id in the URL, after research some articles, i rewrited the url and removed session id from url, i also created sitemap for google with all new urls without sessionid attached, now one month passed, i checked these three search engines, only msn had replaced all old url with new one, yahoo indexed part of new urls. Most are still with old urls with session id, and google did nothing. So in which way can let google and yahoo index my new url quickly or should i put some rules in .htaccess to let search engine know.

caveman

12:59 am on Jul 14, 2006 (gmt 0)

I'm afraid what you're describing is fairly par for the course. :/

Generally speaking the better and more links you have into your site, the greater the likelihood that G will make the changes sooner rather than later, I believe.

Did you redirect the old URL's to their new versions? Did the entire site change? Or most? Or just some?

maxmost

2:47 am on Jul 14, 2006 (gmt 0)

The url before:

ht*p://www.domain.com/product.php?product_id=abcd

I rewrite url to:

ht*p://www.domain.com/product-abcd.php

The website has around 3000 products, and each item link was rewrited to the second model.

Before url rewrite, google, yahoo and msn index product link like

www.domain.com/product_info.php?product_ id=abcd&PHPSESSID=e3267d1ba30d6c74e80ae1d1958fdf5b

I disabled session by putting

php_value session.use_only_cookies 1
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0

in the .htaccess and rewrited url, good news is msn re-index my whole site with new url, but google still sticked to old one with session id in the url.

Caveman: you said to redirect the old URL's to their new versions? How to do it? one by one or set a new rule in the htaccess, will that be a dead loop with url rewrite rule?

[edited by: caveman at 5:35 pm (utc) on July 14, 2006]
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caveman

9:50 am on Jul 14, 2006 (gmt 0)

Ummm, you want to take care of this quickly. Otherwise you might end up with duplicate content penalties (two sets of identical pages). Head over to the Apache Forum here at WebmasterWorld. They can help you sort out the details far better than I could. :P