Recently I am re-organizing my main website, www.culturanuova.net (that is I change file names to get them more semantic, and I have splitted too long files in new folder: i.g. Aristotele.php is now /Aristotele, with several php files within) and I send constantly new sitemap to google search. But now I have a growing number of 404 and similar error on google search: they are very lazy, so to say, to update their db.
I tried to remove manually the webpages no more existing, but it is a very long work. And add a huge number of 301 pages seems to me quite a non-sense.
There would be a more reasonable approach? What about?
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Redirecting the old URLs to the new ones is the way to handle this.
You may not necessarily need to write an individual redirect for every URL, depending in the structure change. It’s possible to use wild-cards and regex to redirect a number of URLs in one go. But again, that depends on the nature of the URL change.
If many change in the same way it can work.
So if Aristotele.php becomes /Aristotele
and likewise Plato.php becomes /Plato
then it should be possible to have one redirect to do both, or any number of similar changes.