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Thanks for your response William.

It was more the second scenario I was referring to, but to clarify.

Content from mywebsite.com would be moved to mywebsite.com/new-url, with 301 redirect added to mywebsite.com

New content would be added to mywebsite.com

Thanks for your clarification that bots would henceforth ignore mywebsite.com; naturally this is really not what I want.

So, really just wondering if there is an effective alternative I can use. As mentioned, the current home page is ranking well, but the redesign necessarily involves removing the current content.

Essentially I'm looking for a way to preserve rankings...

Thanks, Matt.

I am working on a site which is currently being redesigned. The home page currently ranks highly for relevant search terms, although on the new site the content on this page will be removed.

The solution I was considering, to preserve rankings, was to move the content on the home page to a new url, and use a 301 redirect to help preserve rankings for that particular page.

The question I have therefore, is am I able to add new content to the home page, and have this page freshly indexed accordingly?

Any thoughts or suggestions would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Matt.