You may have a situation where you need to redirect a SharePoint site to a different URL. For example, you may want to point your site visitors to a new site, a survey, or an announcement.
One easy way to do this is by using a News link.
A News link is a kind of news post that lets you link to an external web page and show it as a news item on your site.
Here is how you can create and use a News link for redirection:
1. Navigate to the SharePoint site that you want to redirect and on the top left corner click **New** > **News link**.
2. In the **Link** box, type the URL of the web page that you want to redirect to.
3. In the **Title** box, type a title for your News link. This will appear on your site as the news headline. You can also add an image, a description, and a source for your News link if you want. These will appear on your site as the news summary.
- Select **Post** to publish your News link. Once you have created the redirect page, the next step is to set the redirect page as a home page so that it takes the user to the new site when they visit the site’s home page.
- Visit the “Site pages library” by going to by going to Site contents >> Site pages. Right click on the redirect page you created and then select “Make home page”
