301 redirect certain pages to new domain

Is moving content from one site to another penalized?

[ichthyous]

I was wondering if it's possible to 301 redirect certain pages from my current domain to a new one. I want to move pages related to specific topics to the new site and keep the rest of my content. Should I just use:

RedirectPermanent /topic1.html http://newsite.com/

Has anyone been penalized for redirecting pages to a new domain? Thanks

[edited by: tedster at 12:42 am (utc) on Oct. 8, 2006]
[edit reason] de-link the url [/edit]

[tedster]

No, you don't get penalized -- but the new urls are, well, NEW urls. They go through the same kind of trust testing that Google applies to any new url. Never lose sight that Google Search returns URLSs, and not "content" or "pages" -- those words have no technical defintion on the web. Also a 301 redirect does not immediately transfer all the backlink influences that were helping the article in its original location.

[g1smd]

If you are redirecting an internal URL on an old domain, over to a new domain, do make sure that you redirect to the new page where that content, or related content, now resides.

Do NOT redirect multiple internal pages straight to the root of the new site. That is not what the redirect is supposed to be used for.

I suspect that easily might be seen as a spam tactic and therefore that would be one to avoid.