Page Renaming

[TheTruth]

I'm thinking of renaming an internal page on my site that is indexed (and gets hits from G) to a different name (that better describes the page).

Am I right that all I do is add the robot nofollow on the old page and change the links to point to the new page?

Thanks!

[Mark_A]

renaming the filename or the page title?

If you are making a new page I would not leave the old page up for long

It may remain in the google listings as it still exists and might even be listed next to the new page ..

[Red5]

Just to add to what's been said already, I think you need the robot noindex tag in the old page whilst it still resides on the server next to the new one.

If you delete the old page and have access to htaccess files, I'd also add a 301 redirect from the old file to the new one.

;-)

[Gus_R]

Hi, post at old url a page with meta tag:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">
and a link to the new one like "Go to ..." for real people.
You can delete it after next update.

[TheTruth]

Ok that wraps it up for me! Thank you all for your replies.

[ThatAdamGuy]

I don't get why folks are suggesting that he keep the old page up.

Why not just delete the old page, and 301 redirect to the new filename?

[Gus_R]

"NOINDEX" removes index entry within one update cycle, redirecting can be longer I think.

[tqatsju]

i'm doing redirects to new pages i have made with different names (from their old counterparts) that i'm doing 301 redirects for, but there are old pages (that aren't being renamed) that aren't linked to at my site anymore should i just delete them and let the 404 redirect take people to my main page? Or should i just leave them there?

thanks, Tom

[Red5]

In my view, I would remove all old pages and either a 301 redirect them to their replacement pages, or let the 404 take care of redundant pages.

;-)