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Redirect
Sending a request from one URL to another.
301/308 mean the move is permanent, and search engines pass the old page's ranking to the new URL. 302/307 mean temporary. Redirect old URLs when you restructure a site. Otherwise, links people shared and pages Google ranked will turn into 404s.
{ "redirects": [{ "source": "/old", "destination": "/new", "permanent": true }] }
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