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Originally Posted by icecube_media
hi
use tag to redirect put the following HTML tag in-between <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags.
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Originally Posted by born_star16
Use canonical tags to redirect your pages.
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The best way is to use 301 permanent redirect.
Redirect in the head section might look suspect to the search engines.
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Why Do I Need to Use 301 Redirects?
When things change on a website or blog and you do not have a 301 redirect instruction covering the change an few things can happen:
•If someone clicked a link on another site that points to a page that has now moved or is gone the visitor will get a 404 error page, indicating the web server cannot find the page. When you have done your own custom 404 error page complete with full navigation and a message about this page must have moved the person is still lost as to where they should go on your site for the information they wanted. With a 301 redirect instruction in place you can send them to the correct page or an alternative page if the page was deleted.
•A search engine bot is just like a visitor who has been directed to a page from a link within your site, from another site or from their records in their index. They need to know also that the page has removed or moved to a new location.
•Your page is listed in a search engine or a directory somewhere and that link you worked so hard for is now useless if you moved it without a 301 redirect. You need to keep that incoming link by including a 301 redirect instruction so you don’t loose the link. A directory editor might not take the time to find where you moved the page to and just delete the link.
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301 Redirects: What You Need to Know
Instructions written by our fearless leader Cricket:
301 Permanent Redirect
Basic 301 Permanent Redirect
Linear Mode
