What is an HTML redirect?

An HTML redirect (also sometimes called a meta refresh or meta redirect) is a way of redirecting one HTML page to another in the HTML source code. An HTML redirect includes instructions in the section of the document that tell the web browser to automatically refresh a different page, with an optional time delay before the refresh occurs.

What is a client-side redirect?

Client-side redirects exist as well, where the browser — the “client” — has to handle the redirect itself. With these redirects, the server doesn’t automatically redirect the browser to the new URL. Instead, when the browser makes its request, the server basically tells it, “Try asking for this other URL instead.”

Why do I need a redirect?

Domain change: If you create an entirely new website on a different domain, you may want to use redirects on a large scale to preserve the inbound links from the original. All these situations could call for a redirect. How do redirects affect SEO?

What is a permanent redirect?

Permanent redirects to preserve existing links/bookmarks after changing the site's URLs, progress pages when uploading a file, etc. In HTTP, redirection is triggered by a server sending a special redirect response to a request. Redirect responses have status codes that start with 3, and a Location header holding the URL to redirect to.