Permanent Redirect - how does Google see url?

How will google see the redirect url wrt density?

[netnerd]

Im doing a permanent (301) redirect in asp.

My old page is widgets.asp
and the page it redirects to is wattsits.asp

When google is calculating the density of the word widgets on the page, what does it see?

Will it just see the original "widgets.asp" on the page, or does it go the extra step and first change this to "wattsits.asp" before calculating densities?

[DaveAtIFG]

You're changing the name of the file and thinking that will affect the keyword density of the page? The KW density is based on the contents of the file/page, not its name.

[netnerd]

IF there are 10 links on the web page to other pages,then i think that the page names in those links may be considered during the desnity calculation for that main page.

So, if my widgets page links to 10 pages called widgets-1.htm,widgets-2.htm, and says widgets once in the text, then widgets will be on the page 11 times.

[DaveAtIFG]

IF there are 10 links on the web page

Aha!

i think that the page names in those links may be considered

I'm almost certain they will. I have no idea how significant the Google algo considers them though.

In addition, they can impact the way PR is distributed within your site.