[vox-tech] moving an url gracefully

[Ken Bloom]

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i have a directory on my webserver that contains some fairly popular pages.
> 
> i'd like to change the url from
> 
>    http://www.dirac.org/foo/bar
> 
> to
> 
>    http://www.dirac.org/bar
> 
> is there a graceful way to do this and have the info updated by the search
> engines?  i hear that google puts higher rankings on urls that are around
> for a long time.  anyway of avoiding that reduction in rank?

use robots.txt to forbid indexing the old url?

--Ken Bloom

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