This is the cleanest way to redirect a URL. Quick, easy, and search-engine friendly. Remember HTAccess stuff is for Apache servers only.<\/p>\n
Redirect 301 \/oldpage.html http:\/\/www.yoursite.com\/newpage.html\r\nRedirect 301 \/oldpage2.html http:\/\/www.yoursite.com\/folder\/<\/code><\/pre>\nRedirect an entire site<\/h4>\n
This way does it with links intact<\/strong>. That is www.oldsite.com\/some\/crazy\/link.html will become www.newsite.com\/some\/crazy\/link.html. This is extremely helpful when you are just “moving” a site to a new domain. Place this on the OLD site:<\/p>\nRedirect 301 \/ http:\/\/newsite.com\/<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the cleanest way to redirect a URL. Quick, easy, and search-engine friendly. Remember HTAccess stuff is for Apache servers only. Redirect a single page Redirect 301 \/oldpage.html http:\/\/www.yoursite.com\/newpage.html Redirect 301 \/oldpage2.html http:\/\/www.yoursite.com\/folder\/ Redirect an entire site This way does it with links intact. That is www.oldsite.com\/some\/crazy\/link.html will become www.newsite.com\/some\/crazy\/link.html. 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