Will moving a well established Blog to a different URL (on the same domain) affect the SERPs?

[RobertHill]

Hi SEOmoz experts,

We will shortly be launching a new product range (B-Events) on our Events website and I was wondering if moving our current A-Events specific blog will impact the SERPs at all?

Quite a few of our blog posts rank well for longtail A-Events terms, so we're a little reluctant to move it. But for the long term it makes more sense than creating & maintaining 2 separate blogs.

• Current Blog URL: domain.com/a-events/blog
• New Blog URL: domain.com/news
• New A-Events Category: domain.com/news/a-events
• New B-Events Category: domain.com/news/b-events

I intend to 301 redirect all of the old URLs (200+) to their new blog category equivalent, will this be enough to keep their positions in the SERPs?

Can you recommend / think of anything else, that we might not have considered.

Any help would be much appreciated!

[Naghirniac]

301 is the safe solution for you. When you use this kind of redirection, the link juice will flow for your new pages. There is no better solution, you did it great.