Worth it to redirect .swf during a website migration?
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Recently one of our clients switched web providers. We've been implementing 301 redirects to the new URL structure for the most important pages.
We noticed upon doing a site search, Google has indexed a .swf URL on page 3 of search results. Please see attached image.
1. Should I implement a redirect for this? There are no links to this filetype.
2. There are three others (.swf) that are indexedI would think the best thing to do is to have the new website return a 404 for this page, as it's currently doing, and it will eventually drop out of the index.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks!
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Hi,
It will eventually drop out if it is returning a 404 or you could always use the page removal tool in Webmaster Tools?
-Andy
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Thanks Andy! I'll add the second step of the URL removal tool.