best way to 301 redirect individual pages?

[plasma800]

I am about to bring some new pages online that will replace well indexed older pages.

I want to "301" the old pages to the new pages.

Any opinion on the best way to do this on an individual page level?

My choices are

1) ASP IN PAGE as : #Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
#Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.new-url.com/"

2) IIS 301 redirect at IIS server level

3) Mod Rewrite

Any suggestions?

[tedster]

No particular winner here. As long as the page redirects and the http status code returned is 301, you can use whatever technical approach you are most comfortable with.

I'm curious about your #3 choice - it seems to be an Apache method when the other two are Windows. Are you using a third party module there? If such a module is already installed on a Windows Server, that may be the easiest for you to work with. Still, it's all server side and would make no difference to Google.

[AnkitMaheshwari]

You can use any method, however if the list of pages to be redirected is too long you should go with the 1st option, IMO as that would reduce the server load, though would be negligible to human eyes.