redirecting visitors to a different page

[crak_bot]

Hello,

I have an e-commerce site that is about 4 years old. I am looking to spin off one line of products onto it's own website.

The problem is, I still have links out there around the internet that point to my original site and I would like everyone from now on looking for that item to go to the new spin-off site.

Question is, how do I do that. I have heard of 302 re-directs but don't understand how to implement them and also I hear you get penalized for doing them by the search engines.

Can someone help me as to the best way to redirect my visitors to the new site when they visit the section in my old site.

By the way, it's just an html site, no PHP or anything like that although my hosting allows for PHP but I don't understand it fully.

Thanks

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Wouldn't the safest way just be to put a prominent link to your new site at the top of the receiving page?

[lorax]

Use a meta refresh and set it to a reasonable length (NOT ZERO). Something like 8 or 10 seconds. Provide a link for those who are too impatient to wait.

If you really want to use a web server directive (like 302) then I'd suggest you read up on it before you try it.

[crak_bot]

Will a meta refresh command effect search engine bots that crawl my site. The current page ranks well for a few keywords and I would hate if the meta refresh makes them skip it.