301 redirect blog posts from old URL to new one

[callmeed]

I moved a wordpress blog from domain.com to domain.com/blog . I want to redirect the links in google from the old domain.com to the new one, but I also want to put a new site/application at domain.com..so I'm thinking an .htaccess 301 redirect at the root wouldn't work. Any tips?

[KaneJamison]

How many URLs do you need to redirect? Specifying each one manually is going to have the least side affects, so if it's less than a couple hundred URLs I'd just do that.

Regarding the homepage, you can't redirect the link value without redirecting the URL. Just let the new links apply to the new homepage.

[David_ODonnell]

Agree with Kane, 301 individual URLs.

You mentioned you're using wordpress, there's a plugin for that, checkout redirection.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

[KaneJamison]

Redirection is a good plugin, though I've had two cases where it interacted strangely with another plugin, in which case I used Simple 301 Redirects successfully w/o interaction issues. That said, Redirection provides some more advanced options like redirecting based upon the referral site, which has come in handy.