Renamed a page

Hello i need some suggestions. I had a page on my site -

www.jokespot.info/list-pagenum-0-catid-17.htm

which i renamed to

www.jokespot.info/funny_shayaris.htm

now i need the old page to be out of google index. How should i go about it. Please have some suggestions. even in MSN.. you can see how both pages are appearing side by side

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Funny+Shayaris&mkt=en-us&FORM=LVSP&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=Search

regards
aditya

 

Setup a 301 redirect from the old page to the new page so if anyone clicks the old link they will get directed to the new one.

The bots will also see that you have redirected to the new page and should drop the old url from the index after some time.

 

how to setup that 301 redirect ...

 

This should help.

http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm

 

301 Redirect - How to create Redirects

 

Thank you for sharing the info.

now I have a question:

does this one work?

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=somewhere">

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It can work but you are better using the 301 redirect.

 

i think in most of hosting accounts u get option to redirect links.U can use cpanel and redirect.