301 redirect via htaccess question

[jasmin28]

So, I have www.sitea.com and www.siteb.com

I want to redirect SOME pages from www.sitea.com to www.siteb.com (example: www.sitea.com/plugins/wp/ to www.siteb/wp/ etc ) and the rest of any pages left, to the homepage of www.siteb.com.

It is something with conditions... any help, please?

[Audiohype]

Yes I would do that, it's the best solution, redirect every corresponding page to the new one, and redirect the rest of the pages to the homepage / most relevant area. I can't see any issues with doing it this way.

404's won't transfer any of the weight over to the new site so would be a waste IMO.

[jasmin28]

@Ben,

There are around 150 pages that have a match on the new site (categories like Self Improvement, Science etc), I can redirect these like:

redirect 301 /category1/ http://www.newdomain.com/category1/

...

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But, if I do this, the rest of the pages won't have a redirect (there are like 500 various indexed query pages that don't have a mirror on the new domain).

So, let's say I redirect what it has a corespondent on the new domain, I redirect the homepage, about us, contact etc.

But... what will happen with the urls that don't have a mirror?

I was thinking to redirect everything except the 1:1 correspondents to the new website's homepage... is that a wise idea? Or maybe a 404 custom page would be more indicated?

Thanks.

[Audiohype]

Have you tried using a .htaccess file to redirect individual URLs and then a sitewide one for the others?

If it doesn't let you do this at the same time, redirect the individual pages first, wait until the SEs have picked up on the redirect and then redirect the rest of the site. I would have thought you should be able to do both at the same time though.