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Does Google mind me redirecting to another page (302)?

Redirecting from page A to page B. Will page A still be indexed?

         

madeonmoon

12:25 pm on Sep 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hi All,

I have a page that gets a decent traffic from google. However, i don't want it to be accessed directly by users arriving from google.

so i do a check (using Java) to see if the referer is google.com and if so i redirect users to an index page using response.sendRedirect("/index.jsp"). I believe it this call is equivalent to sending a 302 http status code ("temporarily moved") to the browser. this does what i want it to do. Here is my question though: Is it possible that Google will stop indexing this page because accessing it via searches constantly results in redirects?

Any ideas will be appreciated!
james

Shnaider

2:34 pm on Sep 10, 2003 (gmt 0)



I will try to give you a short answer!

<center>Yes, it is possible.</center>

:D