Closing 1 Site, Moving Content to 2 Other Sites - Question

[MJM]

I'm taking down a site that has 20 or so pages and 150+ posts and moving it to a new section of an existing (bigger) site. I have about 10 pages that are high quality, and get traffic, but can't be moved as they don't fit the niche the rest of the site is moving too.

Has anyone ever moved "part" of a site to one site, and the rest to another - how is that handled? I usually just do a global 301 to move a site to another sites sub folder and it's pretty simple.

I don't want to do anything overly complex or risk any ramifications - never done anything like this before and google search didn't turn up much helpful.

Anyone? I'd consider paying someone to handle it too.

[universal4]

Keep the domain itself active a while (if you will move the rest elsewhere) and use htaccess to redirect each of the appropriate pages to the new locations.

Any incoming traffic will land on the pages at the new location, and 301 should preserve as much as possible.

In the long term the pages may later rank better then they do now since I am guessing the site you are moving them to ranks better then the current location's domain in total.

Rick
Universal4

[ddm]

it's worth reaching out to whoever links to you to ask them to link to the new domain, rather than passing link equity through a 301

100% PageRank does not pass through 301 redirects in all situations.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/.../275503/#close

[seobuddy]

I have had the experience of moving parts of content to a few websites. Nothing wrong with that.

I simply assigned 410 server response code for the old domains that were closed.

Within a few days, the moved articles got indexed on new domains.