Old Pages Problem with OsCommerce SEO

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Old Pages Problem with OsCommerce SEO

a1domain

4:13 pm on Dec 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hello Brothers

I have Oscommerce Installed on my site,

Before I have that Session Id attached at last in my URL but now i make it without session ID (Setting in Control Panel)

But still my old pages are in Search Engine Database (with Session ID at End of url). I submited new sitemap.xml in google but still there is problem of Old Pages in Search Engine Database

so is there any trick to remove old pages from search engine Index?

Waiting for your reply.

Thanks in Advance

rj87uk

4:16 pm on Dec 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

a1domain,

Just continue to get links to your website and google will drop the pages with session IDs on its own and pick up the ones without no problem.

It just takes time.

pageoneresults

4:28 pm on Dec 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

If you can still browse to the old URI with the session ID, then there is a problem. You'll need to configure a 301 to take the old URI requests and permanently redirect them to the new URIs.

Once that has been implemented, you'll need to double check your server headers and also hack your way backwards through the URI to make sure you've got all of your bases covered. If Googlebot or any other intelligent bot gets in there and for some reason is able to generate queries that return a 200 and should be returning a 404 or a 301, then there will be major issues to contend with.