Hi, thanks for the answer.

An archive of some kind is not possible. The content itself from the old site is not ours and we can't use it.

In a perfect world with lots and lots of free time I would rewrite all 1000 pages and put a 301 on each one of them to the new page. But I don't have the resources to rewrite another 950 pages. And I know I will lose a lot of value because of this. But I want to lose as less as possible.

So my question kind of stays... What should I do with the 950 url's I do not have a specific page to redirect to? Homepage, 404, divide over the new 50 articles or something else?

Hi Moz Community,

I have a 301 redirect question...

I just acquired an old domain:

• Totally in my niche

• Domain is 14 years old

• Website exists of 1000 pages

• Great amount of backlinks

• Website is offline since about 2 weeks

• Will place a new website online asap with new url structure

For the 50 best scoring pages I wrote a new, but fully comparable/related article. I will put a 301 redirect from those old to the new pages.

My question: What to do with the 950 other url's?

• Should I put a 301 redirect to the homepage?

• Should I forward those pages to the 404 page?

• Should I divide the 950 url's with a 301 redirect to the 50 new ones?

• Another solution maybe?

Any idea what would be the best solution so we can save as much Google juice as possible?

Thanks in advance!