Same domain, different urls, same content

Hello All,

I use mod_rewrite and I changed urls on one of my sites to look like example.org/articles/25/All-About-Blue-Widgets

The old url was example.org/articles/id/25 so now I do a 301 (permanent) Redirect from example.org/articles/id/<articleid> to example.org/articles/<articleid> for those pages already indexed by Google (there are thousands of them)

To reiterate, the url that I have internal links to is example.org/articles/25/All-About-Blue-Widgets while I am redirecting the search results (example.org/articles/id/<articleid>) to example.org/articles/25. Effectively, I now have two pages with the same content but different urls (with or without article title) and will keep it this way for at least a couple of months. Any comments about such setup? Will Google keep the pages in its index when there are 301 redirects to them but they are not linked to? Is there a possibiity of Google disliking this setup?

Thanks
James

 

Anything's possible. But I'm pretty sure google knows all about 301 redirects, so they don't really look like duplicate pages. (*Real* duplicate pages, OTOH, are a definite bad idea)

 

Google will remove old pages from index (

 

as long as you use 301 redirect, it shld be fine with the search engines..

 

Thanks to all who replied to my thread. I decided to make it a two step process:

1) 301 redirect example.org/articles/id/25 to example.org/articles/25 and use the latter for internal linking

2) sometime later use example.org/articles/25/All-About-Blue-Widgets for internal linking. no need for any redirects since search engines will reach the page whether the url invoked contains the article title or not