Will redirects upset the googlebot?

Will redirecting site visitor to the latest content harm my sites indexing.

[Red_Eye]

I have just changed my site from a static HTML/ Dynamic PHP site to a completely dynamic PHP site. I have left the old pages on the server with redirects to the new pages. I have done this so that users that find the site on google will not get out of date info or 404 error.

I am however worried that this will been seen as spam by the googlebot.

Is this the case or is there a better way of achieving the same thing.

[jurii]

I have done the same six weeks ago and didn't get punished by google.

[ukgimp]

Use permanent 301 redirects as opposed to meta refresh

[martin]

You should try to use server redirects, a 301 is best.

I had one site that after I changed to meta redirects stayed with the old content for a month.

[Red_Eye]

Thanks for the Advice. I ahve now changed all of my redirects to permenant 301 redirects. I am have a problem with one old php page generated dynamically from a database depending on a variable passed in the URL.

Google has spidered these links, do I need to put in the redirct for the whole URL ie. somthing.php?var1="value" or can I simply use a wild card so that any link to somthing.php redirect to another page?

[jdMorgan]

Red_Eye,

Yes, you can leave the query string (?var1="value") off, and just redirect "something.php". It's actually more work to redirect based on the query string anyway, so unless you really need to do that, don't.

A "wildcard" isn't really necessary, just redirect based on the REQUEST_URI starting with "something.php" and don't put an end-anchor on the pattern.

Jim

[turk182]

I've made redirections with ASP via <%Server.Redirect("new url")%> and Google seems to like it. When you see that pages in Google you see the older url with the content of the page it has been redirected to.

Even more, I mapped HTML pages to ASP.DLL (the dll tha parses ASP pages) to be able to put ASP directives inside HTML pages and Google still spiders them correctly.

[pardo]

what about redirects to track clicks on a link directory? If there are 100 links in a specific category with 100 redirects will this harm my ranking?