Doing a Proper 301 Permanent Redirect

Okay so I started SiteA in May and now have some of the pages as PR2 and the domain at a PR1. I have about 40 articles in it. It is published in Wordpress. When I first started SiteA, I was just going to make it a micro niche site but now I want to make it an authority site. However, the domain name for SiteA sounds really spammy. So now I want to use SiteB as my authority site because I love the domain name and I want to use Joomla now. So what should I do?

A) Should I delete all my content and place a 301 Redirect to SiteB?
B) Should I just copy all content from SiteA and place a 301 Redirect to SiteB?

How should I go about this so that I can retain most of my link juice?

Also, do I have to do a separate redirect for every one of my articles?

If you can redirect every page to the new one

If you are keeping the same page structure oldsite.com/article-about-stuff and newsite.com/article-about-stuff then you can just do a 301 permanent in your .htaccess file.


If your pages are not the same structure then you would need an entry for each page

mrdexter said:

If you are keeping the same page structure oldsite.com/article-about-stuff and newsite.com/article-about-stuff then you can just do a 301 permanent in your .htaccess file.

Code:

Redirect permanent / http://www.newsite.com/

If your pages are not the same structure then you would need an entry for each page

Code:

redirect 301 /thiswasmyarticlestructure/some_article.htm http://www.newsite.com/article/some-article

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Good advice. Here is 301 generator which is a really good time saver if you need to do loads of 301's:

http://seo-website-designer.com/HtAccess-301-Redirect-Generator