Finding Old site url's on google search after new site is launched.
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Challenge: Finding Old site URL's on google search after New site is launched.
Challenge: Finding Old site URL's on google search after New site is launched.
- Most of the times, when a new or redesigned site is launched, the old site URL's still remains on the google web search
- Problem: If URL re-directions are not specified to the URL's displaying on google search, when a user clicks on the old site URL , It redirects to Blank/No content available pages.
- This can reduce the Google page ranking or loss of ranking for the site.
- Challenge: When the customer is not aware of the URL Re-directions to be done, Be proactive to find out the Old site URL's and inform the stakeholders to get the re-directions to them.
- How to Find:
- Go to google search
- Enter as - site:svit.ac.in
- This displays results of site urls starting with svit.ac.in
- Challenge: Ok, we found the results. But how can we extract all these urls to a file ?
- How can we do ?
- Install the ginfinity plugin for Chrome. This will un-restrict the number of search results per page by seamlessly appending the next page of search results to the current list.
- Drag and Drop Chris Ainsworth’s Extractor ‘bookmarklet’ http://www.chrisains.com/seo-tools/extract-urls-from-web-serps/ on bookmark bar.
- Navigate to google search results of site:svit.ac.in
- Then click on settings of google search
- Then click on Search settings
- Then increase the results per page = 100
- Then scroll down the search results of : site:svit.ac.in
- Using ginfinity, it shows all pages results in a single page
- Then click on Google SERP's Extractor Bookmark
It lists all the URL's and Anchor text for the results listed.
Now, we can copy the URL's from the results list.