Newb needs help pls

think my solution is redirecting URLs

[planet]

Hi,

I have been having a problem [webmasterworld.com...] and after reading many helpful posts I think my problem or rather solution lays in redirting my old URLs.....? Can someone lend an opinion?

Thx

[BobCarle]

It sounds like you should be using redirects, so that if someone clicks your old indexed pages they will arrive at your new (still unindexed?) pages.

Two of my sites use this method. My new pages are starting to get indexed, but in some SE's I expect the old pages will be there for years.

This is an example from my htaccess for one page:
RewriteRule ^page\.html$ http://www.example.com/newpage.html [R=301,L]

[planet]

Thx for your help. I got the pages to go where I want them.