301 Redirect for 2500 pages

[Peter.Huxley59]

Hi,

We have an existing site done in DNN and we recreated it on a new platform (EPiServer) and now we're going live.

However, there are 2500+ page URLs from the old site which is not exisitng on the new site. What do you reckon is the best way we can address this? Do we create a 301 redirect individually for each of these pages? These 2500+ pages have a domain authority 34-35 and I think it's best that we retain those. We'll be using the same domain name.

Suggestions for ways to approach this issue would be greatly appreciated. I have access to the server and IIS.

*Also, how do I create a virtual page in IIS? and redirect it to another URL within the site?

Thanks.

[Anthony_Trollope]

One way or another, you definitely want to be redirecting those pages properly.

As long as you have a decent content hierarchy with proper categories this should be relatively easy to achieve through htaccess. I couldn't give you the exact code to use but perhaps this discussion on Webmaster World will be a good source.

You should definitely be able to do this without adding them all manually, it just depends on how big a URL change we're talking about.