Redirecting and indexing multiple subdomains

How can I redirect multiple subdomains to a main domain

[AdrianMG]

Hi there guys and congratulations for these great forums!

I know there are a lot of posts about redirection in Apache and about the 301 redirect but I didn't found that solve my doubts... here I go:

I am planning to release in a few weeks a new website that have a main domain www.example.com and then different subdomains for each language: es-es.example.com, en-gb.example.com and so on...

So I want to redirect all of them to www.example.com without losing the indexation in each country (for example es-es.example.com for Google.es etc..) Can I use the 301 redirection for this purposal?

Thanks in advice guys and sorry for my english!

[edited by: phranque at 9:07 am (utc) on Mar. 7, 2009]
[edit reason] exemplified urls [/edit]

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], AdrianMG!

to rank well on google.es (for example) it would be best to use the cctld domain (example.es) hosted in spain with spanish language document declaration and spanish language content.
if you are using the es-es subdomain, you really need to have many links from relevant sites with spanish language content that are hosted in spain.

you might want to read this previous WebmasterWorld thread:
Creating a Multi-Lingual Website [webmasterworld.com]

[AdrianMG]

@phranque Thank you so much!

I have already some domains as mysite.es and I manage the language content and texts when I start the php session so maybe it works... So it must work.

But I will take a look at this link, thanks!