What is the best way to redirect a web page or website?

[emm]

So, what is the best way to redirect an existing website or a single web page for that matter? I am looking for somethng that would also help redirect the current web page's google pr with the page redirect. Any clue as to what approach to follow. As I heard, the javascript redirect is not reliable and search engine friendly at all.
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[quantum]

You are right javascript redirects are not a good option to redirect your web page or web site when you move a document or move to a new domain. It's not search engine or google friendly for one thing. For another, Javascript is very unreliable. About 10% of the surfers browse the internet turning their javascript off. For those javascript redirect won't work. The php or asp option is more reliable in this sense,

php:
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: [http://www.domain.com]" );

asp:
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Call Response.AddHeader ("Location","http://www.domain.com")
Response.End

btw, the javascript redirect is like this:
<SCRIPT>
location.href = "http://www.quantumcloud.com/"
</SCRIPT>
(this way you can redirect all your traffics to quantumcloud. :d)

And yes, google does respect a 301 redirect and will pass the page's PR accordingly.

You can perhaps, also use .htaccess on an apache server to do a domain or page redirect. I am not sure, I will look that up. If you can then perhaps, it would be the most reliable and preferable way to do this.
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[quantum]

Ah I got it! Very quickly too. lol

Here is how you do a 301 redirect for an entire web site or domain to another domain:

Code:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule /* http://www.yourotherdomain.com/ [R=permanent]

This goes to the very first of your htaccess file in the root director on your apache server.
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[emm]

Thanks quantum. I am not sure if my host supports htaccess. That is mod-rewrite thing right? I will send an email to the support and learn how to use the htaccess feature.
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