Is it safe to redirect my pages with cpanel?

want to redirect almost 200 pages.

[blue_eagle]

I created new pages and i would like to redirect some of my pages from the old directory to new directory. There are almost 200 pages and I was wondering if it is safe to do this with cpanel? I both checked in firefox and ie and it seems there is no problem. Here is the example:

[domain.com...] to
[domain.com...] so what i want is when se spiders come they spider automatically new-file.php and and just skip old-file.php if i redirect with cpanel is that possisble?

Thanks...

[jdMorgan]

Are you asking a technical question, or a search-engine question?

Technically, if it works, it works.

From a search engine perspective, 200 URLs is a lot, and you can expect to suffer a drop in ranking for at least 90 days. But as long as your cPanel produces a 301-Moved Temporarily redirect response, things should settle down over time after that.

If you don't actually need to change the URLs and filenames, then don't. The Web is not intended for URLs to appear and disappear, and the fewer you change, the better. (Comments from Tim Berners-Lee [w3.org], the inventor of the Web)

Be aware that just because you change a filename doesn't mean the URL has to change, too. A large part of the reason that Apache mod_rewrite exists is to allow you to change URL-to-filename mapping.

You can check the server response headers using the Live HTTP Headers [livehttpheaders.mozdev.org] extension for Firefox/Mozilla.

Jim