Tarang Bhargava

URL Redirection, also known as URL forwarding, domain redirection and domain forwarding, is a technique for making a webpage available under many URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) on the internet.

For example, you have a company named 'My Company Pvt. Ltd' abbreviated as 'MCPL', now your customers may try reaching your company home page using various links like www.mycompany.com, www.mycompanypvttld.com, www.mcpl.com, etc. So your company can register all these names, and whenever anyone looks for these site names, you can direct them to your actual home page. Redirecting URL is also useful if you want to shorten a long affiliate URL.

Good URLs should have a form like /vexat/products/standard/windows.htm and not something like vexat.com/index.php?id=12. But the latter is the kind of URL most publishing systems generate. The idea is to create "virtual" URLs that look simple and can be indexed by dynamically. In fact, the URLs for your dynamic content can have any form you like, but at the same time static content (that might also be on your server) can be reached by its regular URL.

There are various uses of URL redirection. Firstly, they provide easy to remember and constant aliases. Usually on the internet we have long and complex and it is impossible to remember them. It is better to use URL redirection. Secondly, if you move your content to some other domain name, but you want to maintain the list of visitors, you can use URL redirection. Also, URL redirection helps you maintain a log of visitors that visit your page, that is which part of the world, which parts or domains of the site did they visit, etc.

The services that URL redirections perform are URL redirection services and URL perplexical services.

The various techniques used for URL redirection are Manual redirect, HTTP status codes 3xx, Refresh Meta tag and HTTP refresh header, JavaScript redirects, Frame redirects, Redirect loops. Many redirection codes are available on the internet. You can buy either of them and make your life easy and your visitors happy!

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Tarang Bhargava is the CEO of Vexat Inc. and has an affiliate marketing experience of six years. The website http://www.earncashonline.in is Affiliate Marketing invitation that provides an opportunity to Indians to make money through internet using his experience.

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