If you need to redirect your visitors to a new page, this HTML redirect code may be just what you're looking for. When designing a web site, many times you must change the location of a web page. However, if the page is popular, your visitors may have already linked to it. In addition, the Search Engines have most-likely already indexed the page. For this reason, it is best to replace your page with a new page that will redirect your visitors to the new page. This provides a great way to provide your visitors with the information they were looking for and prevent you from losing your traffic. However, when using this HTML redirect code, please ensure that you don't use it to trick the Search Engines, as this could get your web site banned. It is always best to work hard and learn quality ways in which to drive traffic to your web site. Place the following HTML redirect code between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your HTML code. <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html"> The above HTML redirect code will redirect your visitors to another web page instantly. The content="0; may be changed to the number of seconds you want the browser to wait before redirecting.
Both 301 redirection and .htaccess file modification are ok.But .htaccess file modification always appears in the case of using shared web hosting.