Properly Moving Blog from Index to its Own Page

[Bartell]

Right now I have a website that is exclusively a blog. I want to create pages outside of the blog and move the blog to a page other than the index file

e.g.) from domain.com to domain.com/blog

I will have the blog post pages stay in the root directory. e.g.) domain.com/blog-post

Any suggestions how to properly tell SE's and other websites that the blog has moved?

[Highland]

Normally I'd say a 301 redirect but that's when the page has moved for good. You want domain.com to become domain.com/blog and then domain.com becomes something else. Since you're keeping the old URL I would suggest moving the page and linking to the new blog home page. Google will see domain.com/blog as a new page this way and, as long as you have new content on your main page, it's not likely to cause any issues since bots will have to spider domain.com to find domain.com/blog