Question about Google Custom Site Search
Thu, 09/02/2010 - 9:26pm
Hello,
One of the sites I support is moving to a new host and a new redesign next week.
The current site has been running a Google Custom Search Engine, and will be on the redesigned site.
The old/current site is going to be moved to a sub-domain for archival purposes: archives.mywebsite.com, and that'll need to be indexed going forward as well.
The question is how to handle the cutover.
Do I have to do anything specific in regards to telling Google to use the 'new' site index instead of the old?
Do I have to go into Google Webmaster Tools and re-verify mywebsite.com and archives.mywebsite.com?
Thanks in advance!
Craig
Tue, 09/07/2010 - 10:09pm
#2
yep...
I've got an xml sitemap submitted...which is updated something like a few times a day automatically...
I'm pretty sure the google indexing will figure things out over a couple days (it's amazing how fast it crawls)
just wondering if there's a standard procedure for handling this. Well...if I find one, I'll share it here.
Thanks!
Do you have a Google sitemap submitted? I thought there was a way to specify an actual effective date or something like that... but now that I looked it up I cant seem to find it.