Setting up home on a dropped domain

[MortimerJazz]

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I've just starting building a new site on a dropped domain.

Having done a site search in Google, I can see that the old domain had a fair few pages indexed and I'm just wondering what the best way to deal with this is.

Obviously those indexed pages won't be going anywhere now seeing as I'm putting my own information up. I'm guessing some kind of 301 re-direct would be in order to keep Google happy. But how do I go about seeing up a 301 for about a hundred pages on my domain that now don't exist ... while still allowing Google to index my own pages which I'm planning to put up there?

Cheers for your help

[accelerator]

Or perhaps you could set up a custom 404 (page not found) page ...

Rgds

[wilsonf1]

if it was me i'd want all of them 301'd and would make sure i'd put a 301 page up under each file name that google has indexed

sounds like a lot of work but best to keep papa google happy if you want your new site to do well in serps