[davidaneff]

Hi,
I'm very much a novice webmaster and I used yahoo sitebuilder to create my website. recently I decided to change all of my page urls to more search engine friendly terms. I didn't want to lose potential visitors to my site in the interim so I created redirects from my old urls (many of which currently show up in google searches) to my new urls. I tried to do a 301 redirect but I couldn't get it to work with sitebuilder and I tried a couple of other methods unsuccessfully as well. The one that I was able to get to work is the following:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://neffarchitecture.com/connecticut-architects.html">

then I erased all of the old pages from my sitemap, erased all of the content on the pages (not sure if that was smart) and added the following to try to prevent the old urls from being crawled:

<meta name="robots"'content="noindex".

my fear is that search engines, google especially, will think that I'm trying to do some sort of shady cloaking activity to double my traffic and will penalize my site. Should I be worried? And is there a better method, using yahoo sitebuilder, for redirecting my pages? Whatever method I used, I anticipate using it for several months- until all my images are indexed because I rely heavily on google image searches.

thanks for your help.