javascript redirect on homepage

[jennyflower]

For my website I have an initial index.php page which has a javascript location thing that redirects the user to another index page within a directory. This is so we can do some manipulation on google/search engine information for when users fill in a form on this initial index page. Would this kind of thing knock a website down in rankings? Would using an meta refresh be a better way of doing this? I was just reading

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/reinclusion-request-howto/

and it says about javascript redirects is all.

Thanks

 

[Foamcow]

Well the javascript redirect won't work with a search engine.
But if you have a regular text link on the page the SE will follow that.

You might want to try a META redirect, or better still use a 302 redirect issued server side.
302 is the code for the 'page has moved temporarily'

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[jennyflower]

Thanks, how long would it take for google to look at the changes to my site and possibly change its ranking position?

 

[Foamcow]

Anywhere from a day to 6 months plus.
Depends on how often your page is crawled and indexed.

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