does this 301 work for google

using php

[lisa2005]

will this 301 redirect work for google?
<?
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: [mydomain.com...]
exit();
?>

this should be exactly the same as using htaccess.

[encyclo]

The spider will only see the end result not the code used to produce it, so yes the above will have the same effect as any other 301 Permanent Redirect.

[lisa2005]

great!,

so all webmasters who give out affiliate cash, you will have to do the following to prevent affiliate cache pages showing up and your mainpage not getting the necessary backlink pageranks.

let's say your affiliate point to you like this:

yourdomain.com/?aff_id=#*$!xx

your index.php page will first need to do this:

<?
if ($_GET[aff_id]) {
$_SESSION[aff_id] = $_GET[aff_id];
// then do your database stuff and cookie stuff here as well to count the clickthrough if you do that
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: [yourdomain.com...]
exit();
}
?>

you have to have this on top of your page before any output is performed.