What header to use for redirect?

[eluser]ehicks727[/eluser]
[quote author="mvdg27" date="1219701538"]Hi guys,
Now from a SEO perspective, I'm wondering what header I should use for this redirect, is a 301 appropriate here?
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A 301 redirect is the 'Google approved' way to redirect an indexed page to a new URL, and not lose your index status in Google rankings. Typically, you do this when you move or change the URL of a page. For instance, I've changed page names, like my about.php and renamed it to about<companyname>.php (to help with SEO company name branding effort). So, I added a 301 redirect in my .htaccess file.

The way that you're talking about using this... I'm not sure. If you want my opinion, I think you'll have to explain it a little more... I'm just not getting it.