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With URL redirects, incoming links to an outdated URL can be sent to the correct location. These links might be from other sites that have not realized that there is a change or from bookmarks/favorites that users have saved in their browsers. The same applies to search engines. They often have the older/outdated domain names and links in their ...
Although no actual link is added (which would be superfluous because we have already an internal or interwiki link), it is recorded as external link, and therefore Linksearch can find it. Since Linksearch allows specifying the first part of an anchor, it is useful, if anchor names are numerical or have a numerical end, to use leading zeros.
Any text appearing after the redirect link is ignored in the display, but may be used to add categories, interwiki links, comments, etc. Note that the redirect link must be explicit – it cannot contain magic words, templates, etc. When redirecting to a category page, prefix the target pagename with a colon to prevent the redirect from showing ...
Double redirects often arise after a page is moved (renamed)—after moving a page, check whether there are any redirects to the old title (using the link on the move result page, or using "What links here"), and change them to redirect straight to the new title.
The name of the template is Search link, or sl for short. The second and third parameters are optional and have defaults, so the short form is {{sl|query}}. Both a search link and a search box go to the same search engine. The same query produces the same result. The basic search covers articles.
Note that creating a redirect on mobile browser can cause issues; you may wish to switch to desktop view. To do this, scroll to the bottom of this article and click the 'desktop view ' link. If the article already exists, creating a redirect from that title will remove the existing article, which is usually a bad idea.
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Link Equity Transfer: Search engines typically transfer a majority of the link equity (or “link juice”) from the source URL to the target URL for 301 redirects. [6] Indexing Delays: There might be a lag before search engines recognize the redirect and update their indexes accordingly.