Acceptable Cloaking?

[naturesflavors]

I have an old site on a different provider that is not on my main domain. It's been around for a while so it's gathered lots of inbound links, and ranks fairly well. However, I don't want people going to that site and thinking that it is the most current site. I want to redirect them to the new site.

However, I don't want to lose those rankings, either. They were legally built without any violations, and it's an overall-good page. However, the new site doesn't have the same ranks, so I'm thinking about using cloaking to offer the current content to spiders and redirect visitors to the real site. Is this possible without incurring the wrath of Google?

- Jonathan

[Nick_W]

Google are pretty tough on cloaking and ethics is down to you. I'll not re-start that tired old debate about cloaking but, what you want to do is pretty easy I guess.

Another way to do it would be to just put 'visit our new site here' prominently on the old site. Nothing can go wrong that way ;)

Yet another way would be to put permenant redirects on the old site to the new.

Nick

[davemarks]

Are you not able to map the old domain onto your new server?