Selectively 301 redirects

[Daaveey]

Hi there:

We are developing a pretty typical 301 redirection strategy. We basically are moving blog posts from a former sub-domain to the top level of our new designed site.

We've pulled a site crawl of the old sub-domain and want to make sure we redirect any posts with a significant backlink profile to their current counterparts. Most other posts are just going to be redirected to the main 'front door' of our new blog. Is there a way to selectively redirect a certain number of posts and then 'globally' redirect everything else to a single URL? I would assume this would be a pretty common task, but can't find an easy way to do what we want to do.

[R0bin_L0rd]

Great news, glad you could solve it, thanks for the update David

[Daaveey]

Hi there:

We were able to accomplish what we were looking to using regex syntax in the backend of our host. We couldn't alter htaccess directly for some pretty arcane reasons, but they do have a redirect tool which is regex based and that syntax allowed us to do what we were looking to do.

Thanks.

[R0bin_L0rd]

Hi David, I'm assuming there are no common structural differences between the urls you want to individually redirect and the ones you want to bulk redirect? And what is your set up? It may be that the simplest solution is updating your htaccess file with a list but htaccess needs to be treated with care.