Weebly provides you two different built-in options for redirection: 301 and 302 redirects. What are they how can you use them?
301 Redirects
The purpose of a 301 redirect is to tell the your browser or a search engine that the content its looking for has moved permanently. Because this change is permanent, it should update the URL it has stored to the new URL.
The most common time when you’re likely to use this is if you had built your site somewhere else where the URL structure is different, or if you just changed the name of the page. For example, say prior to coming to Weebly your contact page was “/pages/contact.php” and your new contact page at Weebly is “/contact.html”. A 301 redirect will signify to browsers and search engines that the new, permanent address of your contact page is “/contact.html”.
To make a 301 redirect, go to Settings > SEO and scroll down to the 301 redirect section.
302 Redirects
This type of redirect is used to tell client browsers and search engines that content has moved temporarily. This means that Google and other search engines will not update whatever address it is they have stored. If you have and address like “http://contact.mysite.com” and make a 302 redirect to “http://www.mysite.com/contact.html”, Google will keep “http://contact.mysite.com” as the URL that you see in search results.
In order to use this type of redirect, you’ll need to have bought your domain from us, or transferred it to us so it can be managed on the Domains tab. Go to the Domains tab and click on your domain name. Click on “Add Record”, choose “302” from the type drop-down, enter the subdomain name in the host field, then enter the URL you want to forward it to.
