Change a page's url to include keyword

[jack38]

How would I go about changing a page's url to include a targeted keyword? right now it does not have this keyword in the url.

Here is what I will do:

• Create a new page with the url I want
  
• Copy and paste all the content from the old page to the new
  
• Put a no follow in the robots.txt to the old page
  
• I won't be using any 301 redirects

Any other suggestions and advice would be very helpful.

[Robert Charlton]

If you can't use 301 redirects, I'd leave the urls alone.

Keywords in a url are IMO not a significant ranking factor (though when bolded they definitely draw the eye in the serps and therefore may help with click-throughs).

The small benefit of the keyword in the pathname is not worth the mess the approach you describe will create.

[deadsea]

I agree with Robert. Don't do it like that.

Another possibility would be to create the new page and leave the old page in place. Put a canonical tag in the old page that points it to the new page.