Merging 11 community sites into 1 regional site

[mbulox]

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

[mbulox]

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

[MickEdwards]

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]