Redirecting without effecting PR

[icb01co2]

Hi all,
I wonder if you could help me. I have redesigned a site for a training company with around 70 centres. Each centre has its own sub section in the site. In thenew site each centres page is based on one script that outputs different results based upon the center_id passed to it. i.e.

http://www.pitmanskills.com/center_m...hp?center_id=3

I found that it wasnt a good idea to have ?'s in the urls so i used a similar thing to apaches Mod_Rewrite on an IIS server. Now the Url reads:

http://www.pitmanskills.com/centre/edinburgh/

The problem is that on the old site each centres home page is a static html file usually index.html or index.asp. Also it has the url:

http://www.pitman-training.com/edinburgh. Can i setup a redirect from the old pages to the new one without loosing PR?

[MSS]

I have a similar situation with our site redesign with server side includes in which I need to rename all of our files with a ".s" html extension. The old pages won't be used anymore and I'm also concerned about PR with redirecting the old htm pages to the new shtml or to the homepage.

Any input would be helpful
Thanks!

[adore]

Both of you need 301 redirect from old (or dynamic) to new (or static) pages.

[crashingflwrgrl]

Both of you need 301 redirect from old (or dynamic) to new (or static) pages

Agreed. Google has stated that 301 redirects are the best bet.

[icb01co2]

ok, im gonna confuse the hell out of u here.

what im actually wanting is this;

-Pitmanskills.com is hosted on a different server to Pitman-Training.com

-Pitmanskills.com is the new site, nearing completion.

-We want to move the domain name pitman-training.com to the server where pitmanskills.com sits.

-The structure is completely different because pitmanskills is mostly dynamically created pages.

So if after the domain is transfered and a user types in:-

www.pitman-training.com/edinburgh

The file will no longer exist. I could setup a folder /edingburgh/ and add an index.html file with a redirect to where the new file is, but this could be considered spamming by the search engines.

What can i do?