Redirecting old html site to new wordpress site

[briandee]

Hi

I'm currently updating an old (8 years old) html site to wordpress and about a month ago I redirected some url's to the new site (which is in a directory) like this...

Redirect 301 /article1.htm http://mysite.net/wordpress/article1/
Redirect 301 /article2.htm http://mysite.net/wordpress/article2/
Redirect 301 /article3.htm http://mysite.net/wordpress/article3/

Google has indexed these new url's and they are showing in search results. I'm almost finished the new version of site and it is currently in a directory /wordpress  I intend to move all the files from the directory to the root so new url when this is done will be http://mysite.net/article1/  etc

My question is - what to I do about the redirects which are in place - do I delete them and replace with something like this?

Redirect 301 /wordpress/article1/ http://mysite.net/article1/
Redirect 301 /wordpress/article2/ http://mysite.net/article2/
Redirect 301 /wordpress/article3/ http://mysite.net/article3/

Appreciate any help with this

[Andy-Halliday]

Edit your existing ones change to:

Redirect 301 /article1.htm http://mysite.net/article1/
Redirect 301 /article2.htm http://mysite.net/article2/
Redirect 301 /article3.htm http://mysite.net/article3/

but also add in:

Redirect 301 /wordpress/article1/ http://mysite.net/article1/
Redirect 301 /wordpress/article2/ http://mysite.net/article2/
Redirect 301 /wordpress/article3/ http://mysite.net/article3/

There is a plugin in wordpress for 301 redirects and it tells you how many times the urls have been hit, if say after 6 months nothing has hit the old urls and there are no links pointing to them, feel free to delete.

Thanks

Andy

[briandee]

Thanks Andy

Will try that