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Your old url is more than likely still in the serps unless you dumped the file from your server. If you use the search engine and type in your search phrase for the ranking page, the original page is probably still in the serps and your new file is not because it has not been assigned PR and will not be assigned PR untill the next update! therefore the new url will not get position, There is a difference between ranking in the serps and being indexed!
This is why I said a 301 redirect. That way you get your old traffic from the file that has search placement compared to the new file, this will also pass the old files PR to the new file!
The new files will not have search position UNTIL the new update!
You have to remember. The spiders do not think, they are a program and do as they are programed. they see completely different pages because of the file names! You have to tell them the difference.
Test and see, type your keyword or phrase in a search bar and the old files show up and the new ones do not.
This is the purpose of the redirect. A 301 redirect is a redirect for a move and this lets the spider know that this is the new file taking the place of the old file!
Jim Corkern
SEO
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