Merging 11 community sites into 1 regional site
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I am merging 11 real estate community sites into 1 regional site and don't really know what type of redirect should I use for the homepage?, for instance:
www.homepage.com redirect to www.regionalsite.com/community-page
Should I 301 this redirect? If yes, how could I 301 redirect a homepage to an internal page in my new site?
Cheers
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Michael,
Yes, that's what I have in mind, maybe I didn't explain it well but that exactly the idea ...I am just not so sure how to 301 redirect the main domain, I will discuss with my programmer the code you provided on your answer.
Cheers
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I would try and map each URL of each community site to a corresponding URL within the regional site where possible, rather than pass all link juice to just the homepage.
Something like:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.communityx.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/some-directory/$ http://www.regionaly.com/new-directory{ [R=301,L]
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