How to change the URL once indexed in google?

I have published few articles on my site. Now I have re arranged my site sections so that the articles urls has to be changed. but all the articles are already has been indexed in google. How can I redirect to the new url?

 

Place a redirect 301 for every URL you changed in your .htaccess file

Ex.

Redirect 301 /old.html http://www.yourdomain.com/new.html

 

Will it change the google index also?

 

anyway..thanks for the info.

 

Yes, it's safe to say you should "always" leave the 301 redirects in your .htaccess file due to backlinks pointing to a different URL. However, Google should properly change it's index regarding your redirects in 4-6 weeks.

 

Thanks. you mean that the visitors will be moved to the new page and also google index will be updated with the new page? That means old page will be removed right? what about the page rank assigned for the old page?

 

The whole concept of 301 redirect is to pass on any SEO weight & Pagerank value, it's just not instant and takes some time. Yes, Google will eventually update the URLs and web pages in their index. Original Pagerank value should return by the 2nd Google visual Pagerank update after you start the redirects.

 

OK. Thanks. I need SEO help for my website. Can you help me? Are you doing free service?

 

Your site is very nice. lot of useful information about SEO.

 

Civic SEO is actually being phased out; this will is my just currently registered LLC company name. I'll be appending all current content to a sub-domain but hardly ever will I add new articles; I'm sure there will be updates just far few in between.

However, I'm launching a simple SEO FAQ in the very near future (end of April). It will contain 25-30 of the most commonly asked SEO questions and answers. Watch my signature for when it might go live.

 

Thank you. I keep update with your site.

 

Is it correct? Its not redirecting to the new page.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 /2007/10/knowing-about-your-database/ http://www.website.net/folder/file.php

 

Nice information, just got a website to make a redirection. Is it valid?? or Google can ban your website?

 

Redirect 301 /dir/old-webpage.html http://www.newsite.com/newpage.html

 

Thanks a lot.

 

I think google automatically crawls it and index the new url.. but it can take some time.

 

you can do one thing, create new url of your choice, put same content of old url and do permanent url redirection from old pages to new pages. this will pass page rank and weight of old pages too.
all the best

 

Use 301 Redirection. There was a very nice thread at DP, search for it,

Google gives high respect to them and I have seen after using 301, one of my page which got out from serps, immediately got back on almost same position.

You can use any .htaccess or PHP redirect. In your case, PHP will be the case since the pages are distributed.