How do you "swap" a site in the search engines?

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How do you "swap" a site in the search engines?

From Nicholas on 14 July '98

I'm putting up a thoroughly redesigned site for one of my domains,
with all new pages using .shtml extensions. I'm wondering if this
sequence makes sense:

1. Replace www.mycompany.com/index.html with www.mycompany.com/index.shtml
on my server.

2. Add www.mycompany.com/*.shtml pages to my server.

3. Submit all the new *.shtml pages to the SEs.

4. Convert the old *.html pages to one-way bridge pages leading to the
new index.shtml.

5. Wait a month, pull down all the old *.html pages, and resubmit them to the SEs.

(External links to my site all go to the index page, so no problem there.)

Replies from other people:

Hope this helps... Brainwipe - 15/7/98
- Thanks! Nicholas - 15/7/98
  - No probs Brainwipe - 16/7/98

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Reply:	>I'm putting up a thoroughly redesigned site for one of my domains, >with all new pages using .shtml extensions. I'm wondering if this >sequence makes sense: >1. Replace www.mycompany.com/index.html with www.mycompany.com/index.shtml >on my server. >2. Add www.mycompany.com/.shtml pages to my server. >3. Submit all the new .shtml pages to the SEs. >4. Convert the old .html pages to one-way bridge pages leading to the >new index.shtml. >5. Wait a month, pull down all the old .html pages, and resubmit them to the SEs. > >(External links to my site all go to the index page, so no problem there.)