Our major concern is how to make the transition from our old site to
our new site.

It is the same domain name.
The old site had roughly 150 pages.
The new site has roughly 20 pages.

The old site was ... (blushing) frames.
The new site is .NET aspx

We would excpect to at least maintain our ranking and hopefull improve
it enormously.

My concern is how to handle 301 redirects from many pages to one
page.  Many of our pages have been consolidated and cleaned up -
making them simpler to navigate and understand.  Will using 301
redirects from several pages to one consolidated content page harm our
ranking and effect how se crawls view us?

Any help would be most welcome!  I am surprised at how little I can
find on this topic in particular.  I can't imagine we are the only
ones to have cleaned up and redesigned our site completely!

Thanks!

On Dec 13, 8:56 pm, RHans wrote:

As Phil said, it's nearly impossible to give specific advice without
knowing the URL and being able to take a look at the site in
question :-).

Generally speaking, if you change your site structure or URLs, the
correct way of notifying search engines (and users) is to use a 301
redirect (even when it involved multiple pages). This is also true
when moving from a frame-based site to a non-frame-based one. While a
move from a frame-based layout to a non-frame-based layout is
generally a great move (especially for the search engines - who can
now find all content that is related to what is shown on a single
URL), there are many other factors involved in crawling, indexing and
ranking.

I'm sure it would be interesting for others to see how you managed to
consolidate the frame-based site, it would be great if you could give
us some more ideas about what you did and how things work out now. We
sometimes have visitors who have a frame-based site, perhaps we could
send them a link to this thread in the future.

John