Informing Googlebot for deprecated pages
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I publish timetables in my website.
For example last year I published Number 2 bus Summer 2013 timetable
.
I has pretty good ranking on Google SERPs for number 2 bus timetable
But this year I added a new page with the name "Number 2 bus Summer 2014 timetable".
When users search number 2 bus timetable
in Google, they find 2013 timetable in first page of SERPs. But I want them to find 2014 timetable.
Thy can reach 2014 page with the keywords number 2 bus timetable 2014
. But most of the users doesn't write year name.
So what's the proper way to say Googlebot that 2013 page is deprecated and newer version is 2014 page ?
I created a link from 2013 page to 2013 page and added a deprecation alert for visitors. But I still see 2013 timetable in first page of Google SERPs.
Of course it is possible to 301 redirect, 2013 page to 2014 page. But I want users to reach old pages to compare the differences between years.
(As you would guess I have many pages like this.)
Edit:
Why I don't put timetables on same page and show different years' timetables with sorting. Because my old pages has good pagerank scores or SERPs. Removing these old page will remove them.
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