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The Drupal Path Redirect Module is very useful when you are migrating an old site to Drupal. The earch engines will have your previous site indexed and be directing traffic to the legacy pages. You do not want to lose this traffic by sending them to a 404 page not found error. This is where Path Redirect comes in. Path redirect allows you to supply one path e.g. mysite.com/oldpage.html and send the visitor to the Drupal page like mysite.com/newpage or mysite.com/node/56. Each redirect can have its own redirect type such as 301 Moved Permanently which means that the search engines will react appropriately to the changes.