301 index to non-index landing page to pass PR

how to 301 all but the homepage to counterparts on new site?

[latimer]

We are folding several thematic sites into one site rather than have them stand alone. Haven't done enough to make these sites worth standing alone. We want to pass what little page rank they might have into the one main site and link to the unique content of the landing pages from main site homepage.

Using IIS-6 admin module panel is it correct that we could 301 redirect all pages on a site as long as all pages including the index point to same locations on main site?

Is there anyway to redirect index pages of old sites onto the non-index landing pages that are being moved to main site, while all other pages on the old domains redirect to their counterparts on the main domain without having to use redirect code on each page of the old sites?

Any thoughts on how to best accomplish this?

[marcel]

In IIS6 you can redirect an entire website to another site by using the following syntax in the 'redirect to a URL' textbox:

http://www.example.com$S$Q

This will pass the subdirectory and querystring to the new domain.

Here some more info from Microsoft Technet [microsoft.com]

[latimer]

thanks marcel. perhaps what we need to do is implement that type of approach and then identify the incoming index page to redirect it to the landing page as it comes in from the old site. What you describe wouldn't take care of the index page from old site landing on a page other than the index on the new/main domain.

[marcel]

Are you using Classic ASP, ASP.Net or something else?