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craigtaylor74 · 03-11-2004, 06:09 AM

Is there a nice and easy way to send users from one site to another? I have a new URL which nobody can find and an old one which is well ranked on Yahoo. Basically I want to take advantage of the old ones rank and get those hits going to my new site instead.
Thanks,
Craig.

aym · 03-11-2004, 06:31 AM

There are several ways to do it, depends on the server type, and available programming languages, using HTML and a refresh meta tag is guarantied to work every where, just set your old index.html to something like this:

PHP Code:


			
<html>

<head>

<title> title </title>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; URL=http://newurl/">

</head>

<body>

you are being redirected to our new web site.

</body>

</html>

If your server supports PHP, you can set the index.php page to something like:

PHP Code:


			
<?php

header("Location: http://new_url/");

?>

EDIT:
removed [url] tags.

patislesfan · 03-11-2004, 06:31 AM

Craig what you need to do is create a redirect from your old site to your new site. You can do this a couple of ways. I'm on a different computer right now and all my stuff is on my work computer. I have to sign in for work soon so let me do a couple of things and then when I sign on I can give you more detailed information ok? See you in a few.

patislesfan · 03-11-2004, 06:32 AM

aym_7 beat me to the punch. Sorry.

craigtaylor74 · 03-11-2004, 09:41 AM

ok. that's it working. thanks very much.

03-11-2004, 06:09 AM	#1
craigtaylor74 Member (7 bit) Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Barcelona Posts: 85	redirecting from old to new site Is there a nice and easy way to send users from one site to another? I have a new URL which nobody can find and an old one which is well ranked on Yahoo. Basically I want to take advantage of the old ones rank and get those hits going to my new site instead. Thanks, Craig. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

03-11-2004, 06:31 AM	#2
aym Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,965	There are several ways to do it, depends on the server type, and available programming languages, using HTML and a refresh meta tag is guarantied to work every where, just set your old index.html to something like this: PHP Code: `<html> <head> <title> title </title> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; URL=http://newurl/"> </head> <body> you are being redirected to our new web site. </body> </html>` If your server supports PHP, you can set the index.php page to something like: PHP Code: `<?php header("Location: http://new_url/"); ?>` EDIT: removed [url] tags. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter Last edited by aym; 03-11-2004 at 10:30 AM.

03-11-2004, 06:31 AM	#3
patislesfan Member (7 bit) Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, New York Posts: 96	Craig what you need to do is create a redirect from your old site to your new site. You can do this a couple of ways. I'm on a different computer right now and all my stuff is on my work computer. I have to sign in for work soon so let me do a couple of things and then when I sign on I can give you more detailed information ok? See you in a few. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

03-11-2004, 06:32 AM	#4
patislesfan Member (7 bit) Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, New York Posts: 96	aym_7 beat me to the punch. Sorry. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

03-11-2004, 09:41 AM	#5
craigtaylor74 Member (7 bit) Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Barcelona Posts: 85	ok. that's it working. thanks very much. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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