301 redirects - can we not delete old pages?

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Published on 2014-06-08T09:25:57Z Indexed on 2014/06/08 9:41 UTC
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First time here :)

We have a page on the site which ranks well for an SEO term (top 5) but contains old information. We have added a new page but Google doesn't rank it that well. Information on these pages is time sensitive.

Old: example.com/2013-related-information.html New: example.com/2014-related-information.html

Obvious solution is to delete old page and do a 301 redirect to the new page.

Now, can we still keep the old page by giving it a new URL.

Step1: example.com/2013-related-information.html is redirect to example.com/2014-related-information.html

Step2: example.com/2014-related-information.html is recreated with a new address such as example.com/new-2013-related-information.html

What we are trying to do is to send the user to the fresh page but still not wasting the record copy if someone wants to go and dig up old page.

Would appreciate help!!

Cheers

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