What is Website redirect?

 

Website redirect tags are used to tell visitors / audience that URL links has been changed or have a new location.

 

With the help of redirects we can shift traffic from one website to another website, or we can shift the traffic of one URL to another changed URL.

 

Google use redirects as signal that the targeted URL should be canonical; means that google will filter and sort out and select one URL link from many duplicate content or links.

 

We can use redirect in various ways according to the need of the website.

 

The are two types of redirects.

 

v Permanent Redirects: - These redirects help to permanently change the location of URL.

 

v Temporary Redirects: - these types of redirects help to shift visitors to another source page URL for a limited period of time, may be the reason can be service unavailable or server / website maintenance.

 

Now both permanent / temporary redirects consist of following type of redirects, lets discuss them one by one.

 

Server-side Redirects.

 

If you have your personal webhosting with a dedicated server, then you can apply redirects on the server with help of some coding on backend.

 

Meta Refresh Redirects.

 

These redirects help to apply an auto refresh on webpage or website frame; with help of some coding, we can delay the time of meta refresh by seconds.

 

JavaScript redirects.

 

If by some reason user is unable to make changes on severs then java script redirects can be applied on the website HTML codes.