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1) In magento, click on Catalog -> Manage Categories
2) Click on the root category that you wants to create and click on ‘Add Subcategory’ button
3) Enter the name of the catagory. e.g. Blog and mark Is Active = Yes
4)Once created, take note of the ID that is assigned to this category
5) Click on Catalog -> URL Rewrite Management
6) Find and click on the entry of the category which you have just created. In my example below, it is id = 11
7) Set Redirect = permanent (301) and save
8) Go back to URL Rewrite Management
9) Create a new entry. Create URL Rewrite = Custom
10) Type in ID path = any name. e.g. myblog
11) Request Path = the category ID  which you have just copied
12) Target Path = the path you want to redirect. In my case, i want to redirect to /blog. Thus, my target path is ‘blog’
13) Redirect = Permanent
14) Save this custom URL rewrite entry and clear your index by going to System -> Index Management -> Select All and click submit (Actions = Reindex Data)