redirect...but not the search engine bot

redirect visitor not the bot

[mnm_pistha]

hi!
i am a newbie in creating sites and here is a question that may sound too basic to many

how can i redirect a visitor to a page without displaying the contents of the page..but the search engine bot (esp google) should not be redirected but must crawl the whole page which contains important links and content?

[marcs]

Sounds like you're basically looking at cloaking.

The cloaking forum is likely to have some ideas for you to work with.

[korkus2000]

You could do it in JavaScript, but that is quite sloppy and not very desirable for what you want. You should look into server-side scripts to perform this task. Do you have access to PHP, CGI, or ASP on your server?