301 Redirects for Old Language Pages

[TheHat]

Hi All

 

I deleted all languages apart from English but now I have lots of 404 errors for all the old en/es/fr pages etc. How can I redirect these or stop search engines giving 404 errors on them? Is it possible to add a 301 to home page for all of them?

 

I have added disallow all links in my robots file is this enough?

 

Many Thanks

 

Gary

[TheHat]

Can anyone please advise on this, I'm sure other people have the same issues.

 

Cheers

 

Gary

[croustade]

I get the same problem but modify robot.txt dont work

 

Someone help please

[Peter Liska]

I deleted all languages apart from English but now I have lots of 404 errors for all the old en/es/fr pages etc. How can I redirect these or stop search engines giving 404 errors on them? Is it possible to add a 301 to home page for all of them?

 

I have added disallow all links in my robots file is this enough?

 

Disallow all old language url links in robots.txt - this is enough. You can test your url's + robots.txt in Google Webmaster Tools. Or you can delete old links from Google index in Google Webmaster Tools directly. It takes some time for Google to show your eshop correctly.

 

301 means: this page has been moved

If you redirect your old language pages to your home page in english - you may have some penalization from Google, because the new page content does not match old page content.

Edited August 13, 2012 by Peter Liska (see edit history)

[shaka]

Hi,

 

Is this code in htaccess ok to prevent 404 error on old french product page when i activate the languages.

 

#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.com/new-catalog/lang-fr/$

#RewriteRule ^lang-fr/(.*) http://www.mysite.com/new-catalog /$1 [QSA,L,R=301]