301 redirect to search results page?

[Jenny1]

Hi - we just launched our redesigned website. On the previous site, we had multiple .html pages that contained links to supporting pdf documentation. On this new site, we no longer have those .html landing pages containing the links. The question came up, should we do a search on our site to gather a single link that contains all pdf links from the previous site, and set up a redirect? It's my understanding that you wouldn't want google to index a search results page on your website.

Example:

old site had the link http://www.oldsite.com/technical-documents.html

new site, to see those same links would be like: http://www.newsite.com/resources/search?View+Results=&f[]=categories%3A196

[OlegKorneitchouk]

So I would recommend you mod_rewrite to a SEO friendly search page for your docs results. e.g. newsites.com/resources/search/technical-documents/ and redirect to that

If not possible, I would still simply redirect to the search results page. Users want to see those docs so redirecting them anywhere else will just cause them to bounce.