Fixing large number of 404s

[JamesKirkyBCtv]

Hi

Newbie SEO here....

I converted quite a massive site to wordpress (www.yourbusinesschannel.com). For a number of reasons, over 1000 pages were not converted and the URLs could not easily be preserved in any event

I am now going to add these pages back by importing a large CSV into wordpress.

However what is the best way to tell google that the pages are now back and at new addresses? Is it to submit a site map and get the site recrawled from scratch?

[Mark_Jay_Apsey_Jr.]

Right on......use one of the plugins for wordpress.

We use google xml sitemap. Works like a charm. After you have added content go in and recreate the sitemap and you are in business once they recrawl......make sure you clean up other issues.

Another plugin that might be helpful is wordpress importer.

Here is the copy and paste from the plug in on one of our sites.....

The WordPress Importer will import the following content from a WordPress export file:

• Posts, pages and other custom post types
• Comments
• Custom fields and post meta
• Categories, tags and terms from custom taxonomies
• Authors

For further information and instructions please see the Codex page on Importing Content