[DanielGarneau]

Hello Haytem,

I had a similar concern to yours when I wanted to rename some of my html pages to give them a more meaningful url name readable by humans and by machines. One of my concern was that people who had identified my old page as a "favoite" would have an easy mechanism to find their way back to my site.

What I did was copy my original html page, giving it the new name I wanted for it. Then I made sure all of my site's links to the old page pointed to the new page. So for a few days I had the very same content in both old and new pages. When all testing was finished, I replaced the content of the old page by a generic text explaining that this page was now available in the new location, and I also provided a link on that old page (which became my home made reroute page) to the new html page.

I then made the necessary adjustments in my "sitemap.xml" and "robots.txt" files so that robots would ignore the old files ("sitemap.xml") and so that it would stop being shown in search engines that had previously listed it in their memories ("robots.txt").