How to Redirect a Website
Site redirection is a useful tool, especially when revamping an old site where pages have been moved or renamed. When you redirect a website, you automatically take site visitors to the new destination page without them clicking on a link to load the new page. Site redirection is also used when a whole domain or URL has been changed. You can easily place a redirect code in your home page if you wish to send site visitors, who haven't updated their bookmarks yet, to your new domain.
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Instructions
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Open your Web page in Notepad.
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Place the following code in between the <head> tags:
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="2; url=http://www.newpage.com">
Replace the number "2" with the number of seconds before a site visitor gets redirected and "http://www.newpage.com" with your new site URL.
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Save your page and upload it to your site.
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Tips & Warnings
Change the seconds to "0" to automatically redirect site visitors without loading the content of the old page.
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Comments
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This method is good only if there are two or three web pages. The best way is to use a 301 redirect from the server itself.
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This is very simple, but I unable to check this code in some sites.
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This did not explain how to do it.
