Finding old website's sitemap/URLs

[harrylewisliley]

Hi, my company has just launched a new website. However, nobody saved all the URLs from the old website. Is there a way to get these still? Need to set-up redirects to the new website.

 

[Paul Murray]

You could try searching Google's cache and hope they haven't updated it yet.

Use this in the address field of your browser:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.YOURWEBSITE.com

Another less than ideal option would be to check for 404 errors in Webmaster Tools and redirect or remove them as they come in.

 

[fisicx]

Do you still have the old website? Or at least a recent backup. If you do then install on a sub-domain and go grab all the URLs.

 

[sambarnes90]

You could also try archive.org to see if they've saved a copy of your old homepage.

The other good source is analytics / webmaster tools.

Just export all landing pages from the old analytics account and you'll have a list of all the pages that used to be visible in search engines and therefore should be your priority.

Good luck!

 

[UKSBD]

Use site:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&q=site:http://www.EXAMPLE.COM/

 

[Alan]

It may have been archive by the Way Back Machine http://archive.org/web/

 

[websensejim]

Google will probably have them, just do a site: search

And if Google doesn't have them, they're not indexed, so you have nothing to worry about.