Topic: Archiving my site.

I'm planning on getting my current site archived and then putting a new site in which uses a different structure and all. So I'm also thinking about my search engine ranks, so... here's my plan:

Send a 300 forward to the archive subdomain for anything of my current site. Then I'll wait at least two weeks before adding my new site, removing forwards that match any of my new content (eg: index.php).

I don't know if this is my best bet for this. My concern is my page rank. Should I just not forward *EVERYTHING* and only forward anything that would otherwise give a 404, to maintain the index's page rank for example?

Please let me know what plan I should take, if any.

Seriously, the 'high road' on this is to get the new data on a new domain/directory, and keep all the old urls intact.

The second best way is to do 302 moved permamently for all old content, and use new (different) urls for all new content,
maybe except the index page (since you can't do anything about that), keeping regular 404 behaviour intakt.

But till the spiders have picked that up, months may pass easily...

Can't you use http redirects combined to some php, like -> redirect original query to internal search page on the new site/domain, tearing appart some param/querystring/filename/whatever is relevant to insert in a search engine.

I meant 302... I should have double checked that...

Anyway, thanks TP! I plan for my new site to only be run on index.php as most content will be stored in the database. I may end up using a CMS (Drupal), I still need to work on what I want for my site. I will work on it in a subdirectory or subdomain before moving it to the root domain. I was just wondering what I should do with my old content in the mean time.

-piping all requests through a single handler script: sometimes a pretty good idea
-generating urls ala index.php?page=aboutMe: Terrible, horrible, awful, and a no-no

I'll be using mod_rewrite so no GET variables are seen.

just checking