Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations gkittelson on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

have a website with link to redirect page, index,nofollow for meta...

Status
Not open for further replies.

spewn

Programmer
May 7, 2001
1,034
i have a website with links...each link takes the user to a hard coded html page with a 3 secound javascript redirect, initiated by the body onload event...

when the html page loads, it fires that redirect, and after 3 secounds they are taken to an affiliate website. i have a robot meta tag that says index this page, but don't follow the links (since they are to 3rd party websites).

my question is how will the SE's see this page? will the go to the html page, index it and not even be affected by the redirect?

i know redirects are not good SE practice...is there a safer way? basically the html page is a middle man of sorts, and also to add some more depth to my site...

any ideas?

- g
 
and also to add some more depth to my site...
How much depth can you add in three seconds? If you want to link to an affiliate site, just link to it. Don't faff around with redirect pages.

Your page will be ranked on the content it contains. Good content's the way to "add depth".

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd
 
How much depth can you add in three seconds?

well, let's say you have a donut rating site...you rate donuts or whatever...anyway, you then have advertising for orange juice, donuts, pastries, etc...when a user clicks on the link, the user is taken away from my site, to another.

my idea is to send them a new page on my site with a little more info on the specified interest, say pastries...i have a little info about pastries and of the offer they are going to link to. then they are redirected to the pastry site they were originally going to.

now, since i have the "index,nofollow" i'm figuring (guessing) the robot(s) will index the page, but not follow the links. since the page will now be optimized (title, keywords and link text) for pastries, i'll have added more specific content to the site while adding to the depth.

now, my question was for the redirect, and how the robot will act when it gets to the page. as far as how much i can add in 3 seconds, i ask this...will the spider take longer than 3 seconds to index the page?

any ideas/experience?

- g
 
If you're using only javascript to perform the redirect , the robots will ignore it and index the page like any other. If you're using [tt]http-equiv[/tt] <meta> elements as well, robots might pay them some attention.

However, from a human visitor's point of view, this would be really irritating. If the three-second pages contain any useful information, it'll be annoying that they can disappear before the visitor's finished reading them. If they don't, they're an unnecessary barrier between your site and the one I want to go to. Either way its a PITA. Don't build a site which robots like but people hate - robots don't have any money!

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd
 
Crawlers don't trigger javascript redirects so will only index the page. BTW

However the indexers can analyse inline/onpage javascript, and javascript redirects are one of the footprints that are easily found and filtered or penalised.

I agree with Chris, You shouldn't do it. It's obviously done only for SEs.

Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
Woo Hoo! the cobblers kids get new shoes.
People Counting Systems

So long, and thanks for all the fish.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top