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Web Page Redirection

There are many reasons that you might need to redirect a visitor to a new web page. For example, you have been using a free web site for some time. As traffic to the site starts to build up you decide to get a paid site and your own domain name. It would be a waste not to capture the trafic that you have been working hard to attract. You want to direct all traffic that comes to the old site to your new site. 
You can have the redirection occur automatically or manually.
For automatic redirection you place the following code between the <head> and </head> tags of the index.html file at your old web site:

The number zero (0) after the word "content" means the visitors will be directed to the new site without delay. If you want the visitors to read some important information before being redirected, replace zero with a number representing the time delay in seconds.

You can combine automatic and manual redirection at the old site. Your index.html file at the old site would look like this:

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