Could a URL change path conflict a 301 redirect?

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi Mozzers,

We create multiple pages for one of my client. Some of them are replacing old pages. I setup 5 of them out of 40. I was able to set them live via the drupal CMS. The new pages were actually published but didn't have any URL but had nodes in directory such as www.example.com/node298. To set them live i changed the url path to one page that already existed( www.example.com/old). In order to setup the replacing page: www.example.com/node298 i added the same name as the old one but in order to avoid URL conflicts with new page(www.example.com/new) I had to change the old page's url path as well such as  www.example.com/old2)

I know i have to 301 redirect the old to the new obviously but my question is:  does a URL path change on the old page www.example.com/old matters in when 301 ing it?  will it still transfer all the juice to the new page

Visual Process:

Main goal: www.example.com/old redirect to www.example.com/new but these two are exactly the same url

So modification of URL path: www.example.com/old to www.example.com/old2 to avoid URL conflict

Therefore www.example.com/old2 =www.example.com/old (just url change path difference)

Question: Because of this url change, will a 301 from www.example.com/old2 to www.example.com/new will still carry all the juice that www.example.com/old carried  or not?

I hope i didn't make it too confusing. Let me know if it is the case

Thanks Mozzers

Ty

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi Paul,

You got it. Sorry if it was confusing and thanks for your answer.

Good questions. Our brand new pages are completely different from the old pages in terms of coding, programing and structure wise.

Ty,

[seo-wanna-bs]

Hi Ty, I must admit, I had problems following you properly.

If I understood correctly. You're simply redirecting from /old to /new

However, you renamed old to old2

If that is correct, then the answer is no, there will be no issues with renaming the old url to old2.

You could also completely delete old2 and it will still work. The server doesn't check for the existence of the page, before it does the redirect.

I have a question though, why did you create new pages and not just improve the content on the existing page?