404 redirection question

[eroswebmaster]

I've only been in this biz since July and never even considered the amount of galleries I would be making when organizing files on my server...so I made a big fucking organization mistake.
What I would like to do is reorganize those files and maybe even delete some galleries that are over 8 weeks old and redirect the 404 traffic to either my tgp or to a sponsor page.

So my question is this...should I do this? Is this a bad thing to do that will eventually lead me to getting banned?

I am not wanting to do this...but the problem I am running into is it takes a damn long time to log into my server when ftp'ing because of my dumb ass mistake.

Any ideas, answers, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thx,
eros

[JackFoley]

If you're not getting any traffic to those galleries anymore, it should be okay. I've also seen CGI scripts that can redirect the traffic to the new (correct) URL, but I have no idea where you would get one of those. Check http://cgi.resourceindex.com

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I'm too lazy to run this shit.

[Amputate Your Head]

Originally posted by eroswebmaster:
Is this a bad thing to do that will eventually lead me to getting banned?

Quite possibly. You can redirect 404 by using htaccess, but I would advise first trying to reorganize your stuff in a way that will prevent as much 404 as possible.... and in the future, when you plan your structures... think on a massive scale, and take into account the implications of what you're doing will mean over the course of say,.... a year.

I've got a few mistakes in my own structures. Nothing too serious, but they do have an impact. I have 404'd some stuff that was older than 30 days, but try like hell not to.

[eroswebmaster]

Thank you very much for your help both of you.

I have learned a very valuable lesson to say the least

eros