Hi,

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, I guess what I'm about to ask falls in between the .Net and SEO forums.

I've been rebuilding my old ASP site in .Net and will be ready to copy it live in a couple of weeks. In addition to cleaning up a lot of the markup etc. I've also streamlined the site a bit so some of the old content doesn't exist on the new site. To avoid losing any search engine positioning I have, I can redirect the old versions of the pages to the new pages meaning any backlinks will still work (I assume that's correct??). However what should I do with pages that aren't on the new site - is it my responsibility to ensure that links on other sites actually have a page to go to?

I guess another alternative which I'm loathed to do is redirect every page on the old site to the homepage of the new site but obviously this will mean that people using the old links will be taken to pages they're not trying to get to. Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks