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How To Redirect Your URL Using META Tag
There are many occasions
when you wish to display your URL in the form yourdomain/display.html
but would like, instead, to direct visitors to another
URL, say some-other-domain/best-mouse-trap.html.
For example, you are promoting an affiliate
program with URL your-merchant-URL/sales-page/your-affiliate-code,
and you think that the URL is too long, or you want
to hide the fact that it is an affiliate link, or you
want to prevent people from stealing your affiliate
commission, you could use this technique. You could
even check how many people have clicked on your affiliate
link, by checking the number of clicks of the displayed
URL before it is redirected, from your Web site log.
Here is another example. You are using
a tracking software, or a tracking company, to track
your advertisement. Usually, the tracking URL will be
of the form your-tracking-URL/.../tracking-?blah-blah
or tracking-company-URL/.../tracking-?blah-blah. You
want to use your own domain name or you do not want
others know that you are tracking the ad. You could
use the URL your-URL/your-sales-description which redirects
visitors to the tracking URL.
Knowledge of technique of redirecting
URL will give you a lot of, among other benefits, flexibility.
Here is how to do it with META tag...
Create the page, "display.html,"
with the following META tag between the HEAD and /HEAD
tags in the HTML codes...
META http-equiv = "refresh"
content = "0; URL = some-other-URL/best-mouse-trap.html"
without any other content (if you wish, you could include
the title "World's Best Mouse Trap" between
the TITLE and /TITLE tags, to show that this page is
about mouse trap).
Upload the page "display.html"
to the root directory of your Web site. With that, when
visitors click on the link your-URL/display.html, they
will be redirected to some-other-URL/best-mouse-trap.html.
Please note that for the URL some-other-URL/best-mouse-trap.html
in the above META tag, and other URLs through out the
rest of the article, you should include the "http"
protocol which have been omitted.
The following variation of the above
method will give you a neater way of displaying your
URL, namely, without using the ".html" extension
in your displayed URL...
First create a sub-directory, say "best-mouse-trap"
in the root directory at your Web site. Instead of naming
the Web page created above as display.html, name it
as index.html.
Upload this "index.html" file into the sub-directory
"best-mouse-trap". Then, when your visitors
click on the URL your-URL/best-mouse-trap they will
be redirected to some-other-URL/best-mouse-trap.html.
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