Redirecting the old ranked page to the new page?

[sifa123]

Hi,
I have old page, which is ranked pretty high in google.

now i want to include my keyword in it...........

SHall i redirect my old page to the new one........will it help in rankings?

Please give your suggestions on this.

[jgalty]

If you want all the link juice then you have to do a permanent 301 redirect.

[kebin]

Are you talking about page rank? If thats the case, 3 is better than one and I don't see why you would want to keep the old sites rating (1).
If you're talking about the search results page, then there isn't really a way to do this other than drive more traffic to the new site. You can set up domain forwarding (I think) on the old domain to forward to the new one.
Google displays search results based on popularity (traffic) and relevance to the search terms, so it makes sense that a new website wouldn't show up on the first page. PR is a whole different topic though.