On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:48:07PM -0500, John W. Holmes wrote: <snip> > As for whether a redirect is penalized or not, I doubt it. It'd be in the > best interest of the search engine to follow the link just like it's going > to follow any link on a page and index the content. Now, whether the indexed > content will show up at domain.com in the search engine or > domain.com/redirected/url/page.php, I don't know.
In my experience, it depends on the status code sent with the redirect. If it's a 302, then the original URL is indexed. If it's a 301 (Moved Permanently), then the redirected URL is indexed. I have nothing to back this up other than trying it out with some sites, and watching the results (with Google) over a few months, but it makes sense to me. joel -- [ joel boonstra | gospelcom.net ] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
