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This is my first post. In the short time browsing this great site, I've learned a lot. Thank you. I'm excited to join the conversation.
I have a city portal that provides local information and website links to local businesses. My site has a PR of 6 and top postions for my city and desired keywords.
In order to track the links I'm sending people, I've added a redirect html page to all the links leaving my site.
The problem is, Google is starting to inedx my redirect pages, but reading the tile from the page I am redirecting to.
Should I remove the rediret html pages? If I do, how do I track the links I am sending people.
If it helps, here is the html for my redirect pages:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Loading website, please wait...</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://widgets.com/">
</head>
<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
</body>
</html>
Try adding
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
I'd also put some text explaining where the page has gone, just for the small minority of people whose browsers don't redirect. Not much, just something like
<p>The widgets website has moved to
<a href="http://widgets.com/">http://widgets.com</a></p>
Not needed for the vast majority of visitors, but doesn't do any harm.
