Will SE follow PHP redirect?

[guillermo5000]

I have a page that I'm temporarily redirecting with a bit of PHP code. Will search engines follow that redirect? Thanks all.

[edited by: guillermo5000 at 9:54 pm (utc) on July 14, 2005]

[jatar_k]

yes they will treat it as a 302, if memory serves that means they list the original url not the redirected url

[HNichols]

Does it matter what type of php redirect you use?

[jatar_k]

temporary means that the redirect is only there for now and the original page should stay in the index

permanent redirect means the original page has moved forever to a new location and that new location should be in the index instead

[guillermo5000]

I didn't actually specify any sort of error code. By temporary, I just meant that I intend to remove the redirect code eventually.

I guess my question could of been better asked like this:

Since the PHP redirect is performed server-side, will a search engine be redirected just like the other normal visitors to the page?

Thanks again.

[jatar_k]

yes, they will follow it

the header function issues a 302 by default

The second special case is the "Location:" header. Not only does it send this header back to the browser, but it also returns a REDIRECT (302) status code to the browser unless some 3xx status code has already been set.

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[guillermo5000]

Cool! Thank you very much!