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There might come a time when you have to redirect your site to a different domain or maybe from a subdomain to a regular domain and you need to know how to do it properly. There is a right way and a wrong way to redirect your site and the best way to permanently redirect your site to anther domain or subdomain is with a 301 redirect. This can be done within you .htaccess file if you are hosted on a linux/unix server. It is very easy to implement and will save you headache in the end. The scary thing about redirects is that you might think that you will lose your rankings and PR, but this is just not the case if done properly. If you do a 301 redirect, then the search engine spiders understand what it means and therefore passes all your information onto the new domain or subdomain. This allows you to conveniently redirect your site and still concentrate on marketing it. Here is a good place to learn how to redirect your website via a 301 redirect. Just make sure and not be scared about doing it, because depending on your circumstances, it maybe a lot more satisfying if you redirect your site to another domain. Just remember, the meta tag refresh way of redirecting is not the way to go in a permanent redirect scenario!