I have a site which is under going a total retivation. The new site
will not have the same URL naming structure as the current site. I have
301 Redirects in place to handle the indexed links in the search
engines and any bookmarks. The big question is: Once the "new" site
goes live and the search engines (Google) crawl the site, what happens
to the none existant links that are already indexed in the search
engines? Do the search engines ever verify their own link indexes?
I have a feeling one of the following takes place:
1.) They disappear on their own.
2.) The site gets tagged for duplicate content and I have to tell the
search engines to delete the "old" links from their indexes.
Do I leave a sitemap in place with the old/current pages listed, but
non-existent and the 301 kicks in there, also, when the BOTs hit the
site?
Thanks in advance.
