Redirects that Ban Sites from AV

But it doesn't taste like spam!

[LorenBaker]

I have a client that is changing several of their web sites into dynamically created e-commerce sites that will use a cgi command. Basically, each user will be served a unique web page when entering the site, which to the best of my knowledge will not perform well in search engine rankings.

They currently have static pages which are listed very highly among their targeted keywords and attract atleast 150,000 referrals from their search engine placement per month.

The new options that have come up are leaving the static listings and having them redirect to the dynamic pages (under the same domain). However, current trends in search engines are to delete pages that do so as SPAM.

Of all of the options, which redirects are the most Search Engine friendly?

Meta Refresh, Java Script (location.replace), or .htaaccess?

Another option we have considered is mirroring the existing pages with ".net" pages that encourage the user to manually click thru to the dynamic
page. Would this work better, even if adding yet another click to the ordering process?

Thanks in advance,

Loren Baker
Web Ad.vantage, Inc.

[seth_wilde]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Loren!

The safest redirects are usually server side, You could use something like IP Delivery (cloaking) to show the SE's the old page but take all visitors to the new site. Although this method has gotten some bad press from people abusing it, if you keep all cloaked content relevant you should be safe.

Fore more info check out the cloaking forum [webmasterworld.com]

[DaveAtIFG]

Also, if you're hosted on an Apache server and mod_rewrite is enabled, it's a outstanding technique. Check here [engelschall.com] for some of what it can do.