[thelist] Re: Google and redirect handling

Ben Morrison ben.morrison at dogstardesign.co.uk
Fri Nov 7 04:15:11 CST 2003


On 6/11/03 9:20 pm, "Cayley Vos" <cvos at netpaths.net> wrote:

> Any redirect on the homepage will make you invisible to the search engines.
> However, there is an easy way around this. Do serverside browser detection
> and redirect from there.
>
> If a user agent is any browser,  redirect.  If the user agent  is not a
> browser, send them to an HTML page.

So why does google tell us to use 301 redirects:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html

Any info on this much appreciated as this is exactly what I have just done.

Ben




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