Editing URL redirection (section)

=== Moving pages to a new domain ===
Web pages may be redirected to a new domain for three reasons:
* a site might desire, or need, to change its domain name;
* an author might move their individual pages to a new domain;
* two web sites might merge.

With URL redirects, incoming links to an outdated URL can be sent to the correct location. These links might be from other sites that have not realized that there is a change or from bookmarks/favorites that users have saved in their browsers. The same applies to [[search engine]]s. They often have the older/outdated domain names and links in their database and will send search users to these old URLs. By using a "moved permanently" redirect to the new URL, visitors will still end up at the correct page. Also, in the next search engine pass, the search engine should detect and use the newer URL.