I m working on my poem site, and some pages were moved from a directory to another one.. These pages had PR2 and were indexed.. I didn't know how to edit the htaccess so that I do a 301 redirect, so I just did it from my host's cpanel..
www(dot)lovethepoem.com/amateur_love_poems.htm redirected to http://www(dot)lovethepoem.com/lovepoems (temp)
Please visit the first one and see that it takes you to the second one.. Just let me know if this redirect is SEO friendly..
and one more thing:
I've made a directory for love poems.. so that's why I need to move these files..
I'm not that sure about rennouncing to these PR2 pages(about 5 of them..)
What do you ppl think ?

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I don't move or rename files... even when I open a new section on the site... visitors don't really look at the url, so if the page is www.blabla.com/things/ or www.blabla.com/poems/ will not really make a big difference... but getting the page reindexed, reevaluated, PRed... is time consuming and can make you lose rankings if you had any.

the thing is that I'm trying to avoid duplicate content penalty..
I have those same pages.. inside the specific dir.... so that's why I am trying to do this..

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How about removing the newer pages that have no PR... you can still put a link from the folder to these files that are not within that same folder... I did some expansion on some sites and did not move the existing files in that folder... I just added the links to them in the menu system of the folder since it's relevant to that section...

hm.. tough decision.. I like to have things in a certain order.. but probably I'll go the way you suggest.. in the end i think that's the best option.
thanks for the tip!

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Well, if the pages are getting 1.5 visitors/day, then yeah, make yourself a favor.
If the pages are getting 300 visitors/day, then leave them like they are.

that's what I thaught when I decided to move them the question is - have I done the redirects the right SEO way ?

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To check your redirects, just paste the url into a server headers check and it should return 301 permanantly moved.

ex. http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

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thank you very much.. I checked that and it solved my issue.. I haven't done it correctly the first time.. now it's repaired..
thanks guys

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