My client has a very large site and as they added new pages they never removed the old pages from the server. The pages are no longer linked into the site.
BUT, the search engine still know that they are there.
What is the easiest way to identify these "orphan" pages so we can remove them?
Thank you!
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Locating Orphan Pages
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ttw
, Dec 01 2004 06:10 PM
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Posted 01 December 2004 - 06:10 PM
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Posted 01 December 2004 - 08:14 PM
A free tool, Xenu Link Sleuth, spiders a site, finds all links, then via FTP to the same site indexes the files it finds then comes back with a report showing orphans.
MacroMedia Dreamweaver can also do this if you have it as well as Front Page. (course with FP I have always copied the complete site to a separate drive and had it set up as a virutal server, ran FP against it, got the report and never let FP touch the true site, then deleted the site and files afterwards.)
MacroMedia Dreamweaver can also do this if you have it as well as Front Page. (course with FP I have always copied the complete site to a separate drive and had it set up as a virutal server, ran FP against it, got the report and never let FP touch the true site, then deleted the site and files afterwards.)
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Posted 01 December 2004 - 10:42 PM
Xenu Link Sleuth is a great tool for finding links or broken links on a web site. Best of all it's free. If you mean by orphaned pages, pages that are no longer linked then Xenu Link Sleuth is a great tool to find any links that you have not removed.
In my limited understanding (I stress limited) once a SE has indexed a page it may no longer look for that page based on links on your site. The page name is in their directory. When you see SEs looking for pages or images that no longer exist you need to use a 301 redirect to send them to the right information.
In my limited understanding (I stress limited) once a SE has indexed a page it may no longer look for that page based on links on your site. The page name is in their directory. When you see SEs looking for pages or images that no longer exist you need to use a 301 redirect to send them to the right information.
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