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Lesson How to move your pages with 301 redirects
Imagine you've got a page on your website that has attracted a whole lot of good links, and is attracting a lot of traffic, but you need to move it to a different place on your website.
What can you do?
Obviously you don't want to delete the page and simply recreate it somewhere else... you'll lose all those great links and all that PageRank as well.
The solution is the 301 redirect. This takes all traffic and links arriving at your old page and redirects them to the new page. Your links are safe, your pagerank is safe, and your visitors get to where they need to be.
To make one, you just need to paste this piece of code into your .htaccess file (if you're using an Apache server, which you probably will be.)
Make sure you've created your new page first!
Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html
Save this, upload, and your redirect should be in place! Easy as that! This method is the most powerful because you can redirect entire folders/directories, or...
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