Question, I created my website very badly and all my files are in the root. I want to put them in different folders now, but I have people linking to the files. I know I can do a redirect, but I have questions relating to this. #1 If i do the redirect, will the new webpages get the link love? #2 The same with Pr? #3 What happens if I delete the older pages after awhile? #4 How do I stop the spider from indexing the old pages, or deindex them, so as not have duplicate content issues.
You should use 301 redirect this is SEO friendly redirect and is parmenent rather then 301. If you want to stop spider to crawl old pages you can use robots.txt file to block and if you want to stop indexing of those pages use google webmaster tool.