Using page redirects allows you to send your site visitors to Web pages with complicated addresses, but all your visitors see is a link with a directory name.
To redirect your visitors, you’ll need to setup 3 things.
- redirect page
- empty directory that will house the redirect page
- link in your site content to take visitor to redirect link
In the head section of your redirect page place this meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.newlink.com/" />
where your link replaces “http://www.newlink.com/”. Not much else needs to go in this redirect page. In fact, nothing needs to go in the body of the page at all. Your visitors won’t see it anyway. This will be the smallest web page you ever made, but make sure it has a DTD, head and body.
Create an empty directory with a meaningful name, like /example/.
Save the redirect page as “index.htm” in the new, empty directory or folder.
Lastly, in your content create the redirect link to “domain.com/example/” where your index.htm file will be saved.
Now, when a visitor clicks on the link of the redirect page, they will actually be sent to the link you specify in the redirect page (http://www.newlink.com/) but all they will see is ../example/index.htm.