Shutting down a site, where do I 301 it?

[MarloSchneider]

I'm working with a few international sites that we are going to collapse into one main site. Our current plan is to 301 the 4 other sites into our main site home page.

Is this ok? Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks

[mememax]

Hi Spence, IMO you may have two situations:

• if the old international sites were in other languages you may consider redirecting them to the same language version on the main site
• if the old domains were focused on specific markets (countries in this sense) you'll better point the 301 the to the specific directory pointing to a specific country (if it was domain.es focusing on spanish users point to domain.com/spain/)