Comments on: Getting PHP Redirect URLs Indexed by Search Engines

By: John Andrews

John Andrews — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:03:43 +0000

It might be “better” to specify exactly the kind of redirect you want in that PHP header-based redirect. Currently PHP dafaults to a 302, but there is no guarantee it won’t change. Why not be specific…. it does take an extra line. For example, for a 301:

header (’HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently’);
header (’Location: ‘. $txtYourDestination_with_http-colon_slashslash);

For on-site redirects you might also look into making that destination be based on server variables, so that you don’t have to fix them manually if you move your site.

As for indexing of redirects, in my experience this didn’t matter in the past. I have had plenty of success with indexed affiliate link destinations when no redirect was used. The better you are at promoting your link as *the* destination for buying X, the more likely your link (even if it’s a page on their site with your aff ID) will rank.

The big question with Google’s “canonical root determination team” messing with the algos, is will a URL that includes your aff ID in the get string trump the root URL (no get string) if both are commonly cited as prime sources of info?

By: SEOGirl

SEOGirl — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:35:51 +0000

Ken! Ken! “This is Zombo Com! Can you hear me? This is ZOMBO COM!!!” Earth to Ken!!!

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:20:29 +0000

Is that link to training meant to do anything, all I get is Zombo.com and some singing and music, no other links on the page. Interesting but not very informative.

By: oojee

oojee — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 05:28:06 +0000

Loads of legit sites do it for tracking purposes so I don’t think it’s blackhat/something you’ll get overly penalised.

this works for me (I do it slightly differently) in Y as well.

PS thanks for the great info you give