How to delist dynamic pages after mod-rewrite?

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    I had a site up for about a day before google grabbed it and indexed it fully. Normally I'd be glad but I hadn't got a chance to mod-rewrite the content. So then I did a pretty mod-rewrite but of course Google still has the old pages in its index.

    Instead of www.example.com/article/example_article

    it has www.example.com/go.php?page=example_article

    I have changed all the links so they all point to the mod-rewrite version. Do you think I should just let Google do its thing and hope it gradually delists these pages or should I delist them myself somehow?

    What I did with a previous site when I mod-rewrote it was added an extra tag, 'show=1' to the CMS so the older links returned a 404 but the mod rewrite links worked as normal. Do I need to spend another hour and do this?
     
    roseplant, Mar 20, 2006 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    use 301 redirects on each page or in your htaccess file.
     
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    Thanks digitalpoint, I know about the google removal tool. But since I am removing essentially a duplicate, is it safe - will the other page be safe?
     
    roseplant, Mar 21, 2006 IP