page redirection

hi folks,

I want to rename web page and redirect to new name like www.example.com/a.html into
www.example.com/a-b-c.html

can i redirect to old page into new page with .htaccess file? is there any bad impact on ranking?

Thanks

 

It's a piece of cake w/ .htaccess. Simply add the following:

RewriteCond $1 ^a\.html$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/a-b-c.html [R=301,L]

According to Matt Cutts you do lose a little juice each time your redirect (probably 10-15% due to the damping factor in the PageRank algorithm) but other than that, there is no real negative long-term effect.

Read this post about Redirecting Web Pages with 301 Redirects if you'd like to understand a little more.

 

Before redirection i would have save as www.example.com/a.html into
www.example.com/a-b-c.html then i should redirect to it. When new page will indexed and get PR then i will removed it.

 

Sure there will be a loss in ranking

 

Yes In this process you will loose your PR little bit ...

 

Also make sure to remove the old page from the index manually using google webmaster tool so that it doesn't create any duplicate issue.