> I'm nearing the end of a long rebuild of a small site (very
> educational!), I'm using MS Visual Web Developer which is an ASP.NET
> gizmo that can utilise vb in code behind pages to do stuff.

> Anyway, so I've been maximising my site for SEO and I've renamed all
> of the pages on my site (creating new pages with the same content -
> roughly) and I want to insert 301 redirects in the old pages. My
> questions are:

> From an ASP.NET perspective:

> I'm using a Master Page, I'm guessing that I add the 301s to the
> individual pages that are created from the master page?

> What code should I delete and what should I leave? i.e. should I
> remove the Document Type Definition or leave it. See the code below,
> what would you remove and where would you put the 301? (this is a page
> that gets everything but the content from the master page, hence the
> funny look of it. Anything placed between the <p> tags is the content.

> <%@ Page Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage.master"
> AutoEventWireup="false"

> CodeFile="Default2.aspx.vb" Inherits="Default2" Title="OldPage" %>

> <asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head"
> runat="Server">
> </asp:Content>

> <asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1"
> runat="Server">

> <p>

> Hello World</p>
> </asp:Content>

> I have a couple of pages that have some code behind (VB) for handling
> contact forms, should I remove the aspx.vb files altogether, de-
> populate them or leave them as they are (I have recreated the aspx.vb
> on the new pages).

> From an SEO perspective:

> How long should I leave it before I remove the old pages from the root
> folder

> Should I have both the old pages and the new pages on the sitemap
> file?

> How long should I leave it before removing the old page names from the
> sitemap file?

> I want to get this right first time so your help would be greatly
> appreciated.

> Michael.

> ps, if your reply is going to be a rant about faqs, don't bother.